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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...

Charitable Giving

In 2005 charitable giving in the United States totaled over $260 billon, or around 1.9% of personal income, making it a significant fraction of the economy. Individual giving accounted for 77% of this total, while foundations accounted for 12%, bequests for 7%, and corporations for 5% (Giving USA, 2006). Almost 70% of US households report giving to charity. While the US typically has one of the...

Charitable Giving

The Indore Charitable Hospital

medical officer, and as in the report mention is made of him in high terms of commendation, the report appears as having been written by himself for the purpose of praising up himself and his work. He is naturally much annoyed at being placed in such a ridiculous position. As a matter of fact the report was written and signed by Surgeon-Major Caldecott, then officiating for me as Superintendent...