Donative behavior at the end of life

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, vol. 92, issue C, 192-201

Abstract: A general finding in the empirical literature on charitable giving is that among older individuals, both the probability of giving and the conditional amount of donations decrease with age, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we use data on giving by alumni at an anonymous university to investigate end-of-life giving patterns. Our main finding is that taking into account the approach of death substantially changes the age-giving profile for the elderly—in one segment of the age distribution, the independent effect of an increase in age on giving actually changes from negative to positive.

Keywords: Charitable giving; Aging; Financing of higher education; Philanthropy; Terror management theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 H41 I23 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2013.06.007

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