Brown, S., Harris , M.N. and Taylor, K. (2010) Modelling charitable donations: A latent class panel approach. Working Paper. Department of Economics, University of Sheffield ISSN 1749-8368
Abstract
We apply a latent class tobit framework to the analysis of charitable donations at the household level where the latent class aspect of the model splits households into two groups, which we subsequently interpret as "low" donators and "high" donators. Then the tobit part of the model explores the determinants of the amount donated by each household conditional on being in that class. We consider both total donations and also separately religious donations. Our findings, which are based on US panel data, suggest that price and labour income elasticities differ substantially across the two classes. The inverse price effect is most pronounced for the "low" donators group for both total and religious donations. The labour income elasticity switches direction of influence upon charitable donations across the two latent classes with a negative influence for the "high" donators group and a positive influence for the "low" donators group, for the case of total donations to charity, a pattern which is reversed in the case of solely religious donations.
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Keywords: | Charity, Donations, Latent Class, Panel Data, Tobit |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) > Sheffield Economics Research Papers Series |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC RES-000-22-2004 |
Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2010 11:33 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2014 13:03 |
Published Version: | http://www.shef.ac.uk/economics/research/serps/yea... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Sheffield |
Identification Number: | Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series 2010017 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:11253 |