Philanthropy Panel Study

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The Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS), formerly known as the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study-COPPS, follows the same families’ philanthropic behaviors throughout their lives. The study provides nonprofit sector professionals, fundraisers, policymakers and public officials a unique perspective of families’ giving and volunteering behaviors over time.

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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.
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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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    The Distribution of Giving in Six Surveys
    (2002-11) Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark
    Despite widespread interest in philanthropy across social science disciplines and among policy-makers and practitioners it was not until the late 1980s that data on individual giving began to be regularly collected. Since that time several different surveys have been fielded, but these have produced very different measurements of the percentage of households making gifts and the amounts of those gifts. This paper examines six major household surveys of giving and attempts to trace these differences in measurement to underlying differences in survey methodology.
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    Key Findings Center on Philanthropy Panel Study 2005 wave
    (2005) IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    Basic Facts about Charitable Giving from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study
    (2005-09-16) Ottoni-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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    Distribution of Household Giving by Type of Recipient Organization in 2002
    (2006-03) Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS) 2003 Wave
    Every culture depends on philanthropy and nonprofit organizations to provide essential elements of a civil society. Effective philanthropy and nonprofit management are instrumental in creating and maintaining public confidence in the philanthropic traditionsvoluntary association, voluntary giving, and voluntary action. The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University increases the understanding of philanthropy and improves its practice through programs in research, teaching, public service, and public affairs.
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    Patterns of Overall Giving in COPPS 2003
    (2006-05-24) Yoshioka, Takayuki
    In this paper, I describe how patterns of overall giving differ across socioeconomic characteristics of households with the data set called the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS). The COPPS is the nation’s first and only ongoing philanthropy study surveying the same families every two years, along with the families created by their adult children. The COPPS 2003 wave asks about the value of household charitable contributions, which consist of money, assets, or property given in 2002.
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    New Data on Charitable Giving in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
    (2006-07) Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark
    There is considerable interest in the economics of charitable giving (see Clotfelter 1997 and Vesterlund 2003 for reviews), but household surveys containing giving data are rare. This has restricted empirical research. For instance, most empirical research about tax effects on giving use itemized charitable deductions from income tax data, and therefore results are restricted to tax effects on aggregate giving. A household survey can collect data permitting research about tax effects on giving to disaggregated purposes./
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    Giving to Health 2007
    (2007) Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark
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    International Giving 2007
    (2007) Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark