Browsing by Author "Priday, Benjamin A."
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Meer, Jonathan; Priday, Benjamin A. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-06-29)Despite widespread interest, there is little systematic evidence on the relationship between income, wealth, and charitable giving. Although the media suggests that the well-off are stingy, the misuse of data, incomplete ...
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Meer, Jonathan; Priday, Benjamin A. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-10-01)Discussing how the rich spend their income is a topic of popular interest among the public and policymakers, yet little evidence exists that the wealthy are less likely to donate than other income groups, and the results ...
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Meer, Jonathan; Priday, Benjamin A. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-02-25)The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 made significant changes to the rate structure of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, including the near-doubling of the standard deduction. Many taxpayers who normally itemize ...
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Meer, Jonathan; Priday, Benjamin A. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-11-22)We estimate the tax price elasticity of charitable giving using newly-available data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics spanning 2001-2017. We find that households that always itemize are less sensitive to changes in ...