The geography of giving: The effect of corporate headquarters on local charities

⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (D. Card) (K.F. Hallock), [email protected] (E. Moretti). 1 There is a large existing literature on the econom Bremmer (1988) and Friedman and McGarvie (2002 American philanthropy, Himmelstein (1997) for a broad Andreoni (1990, 1998), Bergstrom et al. (1986), Rober (1996) for theoretical analyses of individual incentives t non-profits, and Andreoni and Payne (2003) for a rece “crowding out” of charitable giving by government fund 2 In 2005, 2958 of 5756 hospitals in the U.S. were Bureau of the Census, 2008, Table 163). In the school y colleges and universities were non-profits (U.S. De Table 265). Non-profit organizations employed about (Butler, 2009).