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Title: Ethnic Diversity and Charitable Giving

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Recent studies suggest that greater community heterogeneity will lead to lowerprovision of local public goods and less support for governmental income distribution programs towards the needy (Luttmer 2001). Our study analyzes how private donations to charitable organizations that help the needy are affected by greater community heterogeneity. It is important to address this question since charitable organizations are often considered to provide services that are substitutes toprovisions from the government. We find that greater ethnic heterogeneity decreases both the probability and the amount an individual contributes to a charitable organization using new data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

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Authors: Okonkwo Osili, Una; Okten, Cagla

Publisher: IUPUI

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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