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The Great Recession and Charitable Giving
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-03-01)
The authors examine the impact of the Great Recession on charitable giving. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the authors estimate a variety of specifications and find sharp declines in overall don-ative behavior ...
Does Fundraising Create New Giving?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-02-01)
Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
Vehicle Miles (Not) Traveled: Fuel Economy Requirements, Vehicle Characteristics, and Household Driving
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
Simply put, the less Americans drive, the less gas they use. More driving, more gas. The negative effects of gasoline consumption are well-documented, ranging from local effects of automobile pollution on individuals' ...
Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-08-23)
The authors exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on ...
Generosity Across the Income and Wealth Distributions
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Nonprofit Sector
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-12-20)
The nonprofit sector’s ability to absorb increases in labor costs differs from the private sector in a number of ways. We analyze how nonprofits are affected by changes in the minimum wage utilizing data from the Bureau ...
How Do Peers Influence BMI? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Classrooms in South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-08-01)
Obesity among children is an important public health concern, and social networks may play a role in students' habits that increase the likelihood of being overweight. We examine data from South Korean middle schools, where ...
Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-11-23)
Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but systematic sorting of students into classrooms makes it difficult to identify causal effects. The authors ...