Outputs Reviewed: Individual Giving and Philanthropy

Collective Philanthropy: Describing and Modeling the Ecology of Giving

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicated to education, medicine, art, public support, and religion. We find that th...

Giving Circles in Asia: Newcomers to the Asian Philanthropy Landscape

Individual Preferences for Giving

We utilize graphical representations of Dictator Games which generate rich individual-level data. Our baseline experiment employs budget sets over feasible payoff-pairs. We test these data for consistency with utility maximization, and we recover the underlying preferences ∗The results reported here were previously distributed in three different papers titled “Individual Preferences for Giving,...

Basic Facts about Charitable Giving from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study

Basic facts about the charitable giving of families are presented using the first wave of the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study, a new module in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The basic facts are about the relationship between giving and income and the distribution of giving. Basic Facts about Charitable Giving from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study

Philanthropy and Collective Sharing

Today I will present my thoughts on philanthropy as collective sharing. I will first examine the nature of philanthropy, and its relationship with the concept of ownership. In society, philanthropy is born together with private property. There is no need for philanthropy under a system of full public ownership. According to Marxist and Socialist theory, philanthropy is unnecessary and irrelevan...