Answering for yourself versus others: Direct versus indirect estimates of charitable donations

Inheritance and Charitable Donations

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 i...

Direct versus Indirect Supervision in Correctional Institutions

"Indirect" supervision is defined as the method of supervising inmates whereby correctional officers monitor inmate living areas from enclosed posts. "Direct" supervision places correctional officers right in the living unit where they are required to have continuous, direct personal interaction with inmates. For the past several years, these two methods of supervision have been the subject of ...

Direct versus Indirect Taxation and Income Inequality

In this paper, we employed multivariate econometric analysis approach to study the relationship between taxation and income inequality in Nigeria. The study was a country-specific approach using tax and macroeconomic data from 1980 to 2011. We collected data from the Central Bank of Nigeria Publications, Federal Inland Revenue Service, World Bank and Index Mundi. We estimated the data using a c...

Direct versus indirect international R&D spillovers

Direct versus Indirect International R&D Spillovers Gwanghoon Lee Chung-Ang University ABSTRACT Using a newly constructed panel dataset and up-to-date econometric approaches, this paper shows that consideration of the role of direct knowledge spillovers through telecommunications networks is crucial in empirical studies of international R&D spillovers. The paper uses data on line penetration ra...

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