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Does giving to charity lead to better health? : evidence from tax subsidies for charitable giving

Yörük, Barış K. - 2014

giving to others reduces stress and strengthens the immune system, which results in better health and longer life expectancy …. These findings imply that tax subsidies for charitable giving may have positive spillover effects on health. This paper … Income Dynamics (PSID). Understanding the spillover effects of charitable subsidies on health is quite important given the …

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More giving or more givers? : the effects of tax incentives on charitable donations in the UK

Almunia, Miguel; Lockwood, Ben; Scharf, Kimberly A. - 2017

This paper estimates the tax-price elasticity of giving using UK administrative tax return data, exploiting variation from a large tax reform. We estimate both the intensive and extensivemargin elasticity, using a novel instrumental variables strategy. Then, we derive new conditions to evaluate...

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More giving or more givers? : the effects of tax incentives on charitable donations in the UK

Almunia, Miguel; Guceri, Irem; Lockwood, Ben; Scharf, … - 2019

This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....

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Wealth taxation and charitable giving

Ring, Marius A. K.; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022

We provide novel evidence on the linkages between capital taxation and charitable giving on three fronts. First, we use quasi-experimental variation in the annual Norwegian wealth tax to study the effect on how much households give. Inconsistent with the notion that households give more in order...

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Is charitable giving political? : evidence from wealth and income tax returns

Cagé, Julia; Guillot, Malka - 2025

Is charitable giving politically motivated? This article uses exhaustive administrative household panel data and a natural experiment to investigate the giving behavior of wealthy households and quantify their preferences for charitable and political donations. Our dataset includes all the...

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Should we subsidize longevity?

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - 2009

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

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Relational warm glow and giving in social group

Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - 2014

between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

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Relational altruism and giving in social groups

Scharf, Kimberly A.; Smith, Sarah - 2016

Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate (i …

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How do taxpayers respond to tax subsidy for long-term savings? : evidence from Thailand's tax return data

Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2021

This paper uses a panel of personal income tax return data for the population of Thai tax filers to examine how individuals respond to tax subsidy for long-term savings. We utilize the 2013 tax reform that lowered the price subsidy for long-term savings in order to obtain causal identification....

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The cost of gender identity norms : evidence from a spouse tax credit

Giommoni, Tommaso; Rubolino, Enrico - 2024

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax policy that grants a large tax credit to main earners if their spouses, designated as “dependent spouses” by the tax law, report income below a certain threshold. Combining a...

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