Government assistance and family charitable giving: Comparing urban and rural residents in China

Abstract

Using data from the 2016 China Family Panel Studies, this paper examines the relationship between government assistance, urban/rural residency, and charitable giving. The results indicate that urban/rural residency moderates the relationship between government assistance and charitable giving in China. Urban residents who do not receive government assistance are much more likely to donate to charity than their rural counterparts. While urban residents with government assistance also show a higher likelihood of giving than government assistance recipients in the rural area, the difference is much smaller than that between the urban and rural non‐recipients. More interestingly, the results show that although urban residents without government assistance donate more to charity, those who receive a high amount of government assistance on average donate less to charity than their rural counterparts.

A study on the influence of personality characteristics on household charitable donation behavior in China

“…CFPS is a multi-level, multi-dimensional, and long-term comprehensive tracking survey project that involves data at the individual, family, and community levels, reflecting changes in China’s society, economy, population, education, and health [ 31 ]. The CFPS, a national representative survey, is a representative social survey conducted nationwide biennially since 2010 to better understand social change [ 32 ]. The 2018 survey covers 14960 households in 25 provinces/cities/autonomous regions in mainland China except Tibet, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.…”

“…To analyze the influence of the personality characteristics of the household heads on the household charitable donation behavior in detail, this paper uses the household charitable donation behavior and the household charitable donation level to carry out the research. This article refers to Wang and Li [ 32 ] who measured with two indicators, including whether household charitable donation occurs and the specific amount families gave in the past 12 months. The incidence of making a donation is a binary variable, which is coded as one if the household head donated in the past 12 months and 0 otherwise.…”