GEOGRAPHIC DISTANCE, INCOME AND CHARITABLE GIVING: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

Qian Weng () and Haoran He
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Qian Weng: School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, No. 59, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100872, P. R. China

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2019, vol. 64, issue 05, 1145-1169

Abstract: Using data from a nationwide donation program and a follow-up survey, this paper examines how geographic distance between donors and recipients and the capability to give measured by donors’ income affect the amount of charitable giving (conditioned on having given). We find that an increase in geographic distance significantly reduces donation amounts for 15% of the donors. The sensitivity of donation to distance decreases with total monthly disposable income for 62% of the donors. We further find that donation amounts increase with donors’ income for 4% of the donors when evaluating at the mean or median distance.

Keywords: Charitable giving; geographic distance; income; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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