Giving to Secular Causes by the Religious and Nonreligious: An Experimental Test of the Responsiveness of Giving to Subsidies

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  • Catherine C. Eckel
  • Philip J. Grossman
چکیده

While evidence indicates that religious persons are more generous on average than nonreligious persons, little work has been done to determine if this greater generosity is a general pattern or specific to church-based institutions. Limited research addresses if, or how, religious and nonreligious givers respond to subsidies. This paper uses experimental data to examine differences in the amount and pattern of giving to secular charities in response to subsidies by self-identified religious and nonreligious subjects. The results indicate no significant difference in either the amount or pattern of giving or in the response to subsidies by religious and nonreligious subjects; however, giving by religious subjects is significantly more responsive to income changes than giving by nonreligious subjects. JEL Classification: C91, D64, H24.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002