The “Sect Effect” in Charitable Giving: Distinctive Realities of Exclusively Religious Charitable Givers

James, Russell N.; Sharpe, Deanna L.

doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2007.00536.x

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“…As found elsewhere, being married has a significantly positive effect on the amount of money donated, again corroborating existing studies (e.g., James & Sharpe, 2007). The impact of being married does not matter much across religious and secular giving.…”

Section: Demographics: Age Education Gender Marital Status and Hosupporting

confidence: 79%

“…A rich literature exists on religiosity and giving: sometimes religious denominations are included as independent variables (e.g., Bekkers & Schuyt, 2008;Hill & Vaidyanathan, 2011); other times, the data are parsed by a measure of religiosity or religious giving, and these define dependent variables (e.g., Bekkers & Schuyt, 2008;Felstein, 1975;James & Sharpe, 2007;Kitchen, 1992;Wiepking, 2007). In addition to estimating models (1) and (2) using the entire sample, we split the sample into religious giving (time and money) and non-religious (secular) giving of time and money as well.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Philanthropic Behaviour of Quebecers

Devlin

Zhao

2017

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Residents of Québec typically give less money and volunteer less time compared to residents of all other provinces. This article employs the most recent General Social Survey: Giving, Volunteering and Participating (2013) data set and Tobit procedures and finds that Quebeckers give less money largely because of smaller endowments of two important determinants, religiosity and household income. Once demographic and socioeconomic characteristics are controlled, Quebeckers' financial donations are comparable to those of residents of Ontario and Atlantic Canada and exceed those of residents of British Columbia. Quebeckers moreover are similar to others when it comes to volunteering for religious organizations, but they volunteer significantly less than others for secular organizations, which cannot be explained in this article. RÉSUMÉTypiquement, les résidents du Québec donnent moins d'argent et consacrent moins de temps au bénévolat que les résidents des autres provinces. Cet article, en recourant aux données provenant de la dernière « Enquête sociale générale : dons, bénévolat et participation, 2013 » et au modèle Tobit, conclut que les Québécois donnent moins d'argent en grande partie parce qu'ils ont des lacunes dans deux domaines importants, à savoir la religiosité et le revenu du ménage. Cependant, après un contrôle des caractéristiques démographiques et socioéconomiques, on constate que les dons de la part des Québécois sont au fait comparables à ceux des résidents de l'Ontario et des provinces de l'Atlantique et supérieures à ceux des résidents de la ColombieBritannique. D'autre part, les Québécois sont comparables aux résidents des autres provinces pour ce qui est du bénévolat dans les organismes religieux, mais ils font beaucoup moins de bénévolat dans les organismes séculaires, fait que cet article ne parvient pas à expliquer.

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Section: Demographics: Age Education Gender Marital Status and Hosupporting

confidence: 79%

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Philanthropic Behaviour of Quebecers

Devlin

Zhao

2017

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“…Showers, Showers, Beggs, and Cox Jr. (2011) showed that religious giving and educational giving could coexist and need not be substitutes. However, James and Sharpe (2007) caution against treating charitable giving to religious and secular purposes on the same footing (that is, as a homogenous activity).…”

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Do Business Executives Give More to Their Alma Mater? Longitudinal Evidence from a Large University

Wunnava¹,

Okunade²

2013

Am J Econ Sociol

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The novel contribution of this research is the examination of the gift-giving patterns of alumni business executives of a large urban public university. Our results reinforce the earlier findings that male alumni in Greek social organizations gave more to their alma mater. New insights unique to this study are that alumni with the higher-order executive job titles are more charitable. Further, the number of known other gift-giving alumni and friends seems to positively impact giving. The national athletic championship wins are also significant positive drivers of alumni giving in the championship year, as well as in the succeeding nonchampionship year.

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“…Further, as children's income rose, the propensity for decedents to leave charitable bequests also increased (Auten & Joulfaian, 1996). Bequests to religious organizations have been particularly wealth inelastic (Barthold & Plotnick, 1984), which corresponds to findings of relative income inelasticity in current religious giving (James & Sharpe, 2007a).…”

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Health, Wealth, and Charitable Estate Planning

James¹

2008

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Anticipated generational wealth transfers hold much potential for nonprofits. However, a weighted cross-sectional analysis of 18,469 respondents in the 2006 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and data from respondents dying between the 2004 and 2006 HRS waves indicated that 88% to 90.5% of donors (>$500/year) more than the age of 50 will die without a charitable bequest. Cross-sectional probit analysis of the 2006 HRS and longitudinal conditional fixed-effects logistic analysis of the 1995-2006 HRS indicated that charitable estate planning was positively associated with age, wealth, education, religious attendance, volunteering, charitable giving, and the absence of children or grandchildren. In all specifications, the absence of children was a dominant predictor of charitable estate planning.T he coming generational transition promises both opportunity and risk for charitable organizations. As greater numbers of older donors pass away, the need to replace them with new donors will increase. Yet, the transmission of wealth through estate transfers also creates the possibility of increased charitable revenues from testamentary gifts. Understanding charitable estate giving can be problematic due to the lack of research on testamentary-rather than current-giving, and the substantial gap between testamentary document execution and gift receipt.This article presents findings of characteristics associated with charitable estate planning from a nationally representative longitudinal survey, the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), using both cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches. By presenting results from the first longitudinal analysis of testamentary charitable plans, this article adds significantly to the understanding of this form of charitable giving.

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The “Sect Effect” in Charitable Giving: Distinctive Realities of Exclusively Religious Charitable Givers

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Philanthropic Behaviour of Quebecers

Do Business Executives Give More to Their Alma Mater? Longitudinal Evidence from a Large University

Health, Wealth, and Charitable Estate Planning

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