Does Income Inequality Increase Charitable Giving?
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- A. Abigail Payne & Justin Smith, 2015. "Does income inequality increase charitable giving?," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 48(2), pages 793-818, May.
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Keywords
charitable giving; donations; income inequality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
- H44 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
- J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2015-02-05 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2015-02-05 (Public Economics)
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