Charitable Giving Expenditures and the Faith Factor.
Using a permanent income hypothesis approach and an income-giving status interaction effect, a double hurdle model provides evidence of significant differences from the impact of household income and various household characteristics on both a household's likelihood of giving and its level of giving...
| Published in: | American Journal of Economics & Sociology Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 152 - 187 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
January 2011
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