Browsing by Author "Wilhelm, Mark"

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    Basic Facts about Charitable Giving from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study
    (9/16/2005) Wilhelm, Mark
    Basic facts about the charitable giving of families are presented using the first wave of the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study, a new module in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The basic facts are about the relationship between giving and income and the distribution of giving.
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    Estimating Charitable Deductions in Giving USA
    (8/12/2002) Deb, Partha; Wilhelm, Mark; Rooney, Patrick; Brown, Melissa
    Giving USA’s annual estimates of charitable giving in the United States are widely used by practitioners, policy-makers, academics, and the media. In addition, each edition’s estimate of giving for the previous year is the first indication of generosity in that year, and, as such, generates much publicity. Over 60 percent of this estimate is based upon the amount claimed as charitable deductions on federal income taxes. However, this amount is not known prior to the publication of Giving USA and therefore must itself be estimated. Different time-series models have been used in past editions of Giving USA to generate this estimate, but the quality of the estimates from these models has never been systematically examined. This paper describes the model used in Giving USA 2002 to estimate charitable deductions in 2001 and explains the criteria by which that model was selected. The paper also presents a systematic comparison of this model to others previously used in Giving USA. Over the 1990s, the most recent period for which an evaluation of the models is possible, the three most recent Giving USA models would have performed well. However, of these, the model presented herein would have provided somewhat more accurate estimates.
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    Giving: The Next Generation – Parental Effects on Donations
    (2003-06) Steinberg, Richard; Wilhelm, Mark
    This paper provides a summary of what is known from social science research about the effects parents have on the donations of their children. It then goes on to summarize two on-going research projects. The first project provides estimates of the strength of the relationship between the charitable giving of parents and that of their adult children. The second provides estimates of the effect of inheritances on charitable donations. Both projects use data from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS); accordingly, the paper provides an introduction to these data. Finally, the paper draws implications for fundraisers from the two on-going projects, and suggests several other areas in which COPPS can generate knowledge to improve the practice of fundraising.
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    Inheritance and Charitable Donations
    (12/30/2002) Steinberg, Richard; Wilhelm, Mark; Rooney, Patrick; Brown, Eleanor
    In this paper, we employ a unique new data set (the Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS), a module within the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)) to test whether the propensity to donate out of inherited wealth is equal to the propensities to donate out of other wealth, earned income, and transfer payments. We find that the elasticity of giving from non-inherited wealth is much greater than from inherited wealth for total giving and gifts to religion, combined causes, people in need, health, education, and other causes. The effects of income derived from inherited wealth and labor income are similar in terms of elasticities, although inherited wealth creates a higher marginal propensity to donate. Transfer income has either a small or no apparent effect on donations.
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    Patterns of Giving in COPPS 2001
    (11/17/2003) Steinberg, Richard; Wilhelm, Mark
    Serious researchers of philanthropy have bemoaned the lack of panel datasets for studying giving behavior. That gap is beginning to be filled with the start of the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS). COPPS provides the first comprehensive panel study of giving and volunteering in the U.S., and one of the only such studies worldwide to date. Previous U.S. panels studies of giving have employed tax return data, which are limited to gifts of money and property by (in most years) itemizers and include only the financial and limited demographic data reported on those returns.