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Charity : Have the Rates of US Households Contributing Money or Time Declined?

Smith, Vincent Kerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses the responses to questions about charitable contributions from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) between 1992 and 2022 to consider the rates of US households contributing money or time to charitable organizations. The fraction donating $500 or more remained relatively...

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What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1999

Using a sample of Harvard undergraduates, we analyze trust and social capital in two experiments. Trusting behavior and … questions about trust predict trustworthiness not trust. Only children are less trustworthy. People behave in a more trustworthy …

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Social Capital, Trust and Well-being in the Evaluation of Wealth

Hamilton, Kirk - 2016

welfare returns to investing in trust could be substantial. Using social trust data from 132 nations covered by the Gallup … World Poll, we present a range of estimates of social trust's wealth-equivalent values. The estimates of the wealth embodied …. These estimates reflect values above and beyond what social trust contributes to supporting incomes and health. Although …

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Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States

Haws, Adrian; Just, David; Price, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We link census records for millions of farm children to identify owner-operators of the family farm in adulthood, providing the first population-level evidence on intergenerational farm transfers. Using our panel of U.S. census data from 1900 to 1940, our analysis supports the primogeniture...

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The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits : Hot Parents, Rich Kid?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Zhang, Anwen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which...

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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...

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Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving : New Findings from the TCJA

Han, Xiao; Hungerman, Daniel M.; Wilhelm, Mark Ottoni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated federal charitable giving incentives for roughly 20 percent of US income-tax payers. We study the impact of this on giving. Basic theory and our empirical results suggest heterogeneous effects for taxpayers with different amounts of itemizable expenses....

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Subjective well-being and the family : results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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An Ordered Probit Analysis of Transaction Stock Prices

Hausman, Jerry A. - 1991

We estimate the conditional distribution of trade-to-trade price changes using ordered probit, a statistical model for discrete random variables. Such an approach takes into account the fact that transaction price changes occur in discrete increments, typically eighths of a dollar, and occur at...

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Age and the labor market for Hispanics in the United States

Lahey, Joanna; Mosquera, Roberto M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general, that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and...

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