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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving: Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data
2016
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
AbstractSince giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by preferences for racial group affinity, that is, loyalty to one's own racial group. To address endogeneity concerns, we combine a fixed effects estimation framework with an instrumental variable approach.
doi:10.1515/bejeap-2015-0131
fatcat:fqb5zjw6e5b2plw4by3vg4az7i