Browsing by Subject "public goods"

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    Community Diversity and Donor Control: An empirical analysis of contributions to donor-advised funds at community foundations
    (2021-06) Qu, Heng; Paarlberg, Laurie E.
    This study examines the relationship between community ethnic-racial diversity and contributions to donors-advised funds (DAFs) held by community foundations. Unlike general contributions, DAFs allows donors to retain advisory control over their fund distribution based on individual preferences. In contrast to prior research that generally finds that diversity dampens private provision of public goods, we show that greater ethnic-racial diversity is significantly associated with higher levels of contributions to DAFs at community foundations but not with general contributions. The findings contribute to the literature on diversity and public goods provision and have practical implications for the policy role of private philanthropy.
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    Dynamics of American Giving: Descriptive Evidence
    (Sage, 2021-08) Rooney, Patrick M.; Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark; Wang, Xiaoyun; Han, Xiao; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    Almost all of the scientific literature on charitable giving is implicitly based on a static paradigm which posits there are non-donors who never give and donors who habitually give year-in/year-out to a specific charitable purpose. This article presents evidence that charitable giving is not static, but dynamic: Few Americans never give, and among Americans that donate the majority are switchers—giving in some years but not others or switching from one charitable purpose to another. The implications are that a static perspective is misleading, and research questions should place more emphasis on the time dimension of charitable giving.