Fremeth, Adam; Richter, Brian Kelleher; Schaufele, Brandon - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5 (2013) 3, pp. 170-88
Individuals dominate money in politics, accounting for over 90 percent of campaign contributions, yet studies of drivers of individuals? giving are scarce. We analyze data on all contributions made between 1991 and 2008 by all 1,556 people who became S&P 500 CEOs during that interval. We exploit...