Recent decades have witnessed a rapid increase in charitable gaming. Some have suggested that this means that conventional donations to charity will fall. In this paper, we use a rich Canadian data set to examine the relationship between direct contributions to charities and those made...

This paper examines the relationship between social capital and private philanthropy. It explores theoretically this relationship by expanding upon the voluntary provision of public goods framework to include social capital. Social capital, by enhancing public goods, lowers the cost of giving...

Recent decades have witnessed a rapid increase in charitable gaming. Some have suggested that this means that conventional donations to charity will fall. In this paper, we use a rich Canadian data set to examine the relationship between direct contributions to charities and those made...