Charitable giving under inequality aversion

Pınar Derin-Gure and Neslihan Uler

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 107, issue 2, 208-210

Abstract: We use General Social Survey data to test our theory's prediction that voluntary giving increases with inequality aversion for high income individuals, and that the opposite is true for low income individuals. We find strong support for our theoretical predictions.

Keywords: Inequality; aversion; Charitable; contributions; Private; provision; of; public; goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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