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Research Using Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS) Data

May, 2009

If you are aware of additional papers not listed here we would appreciate knowing about them. For more information regarding this data, contact , Associate Director of Research.

* - Indicates IU faculty member

$ - Indicates COP grant or other COP funding to researcher for that project

Books or Book Chapters:

Brooks, Arthur (2006). Who Really Cares: America’s Charity Divide: Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why it Matters. (New York: Basic Books).

Grafova, I., McGonagle, K., & Stafford, F. P. (2006). Functioning and well-being in the third age: 1986-2001. In E. B James, P. Wink, & K. W. Schaie (Eds.), The crown of life: Dynamics of the post-retirement period. Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics (Vol. 26, pp. 19-38). New York: Springer Publishing Company.

$ Havens, John J., Mary A. O’Herlihy, and Paul G. Schervish. 2006. "Charitable Giving: How Much, By Whom, To What, and How?" Forthcoming in Walter W. Powell and Richard Steinberg, eds., The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd Ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press).

Nembhard, J. G., & Blasingame, A. A. (2006). Wealth, civic engagement & democratic practice. In J. G. Nembhard and N. Chiteji (Eds.), Wealth accumulation & communities of color in the United States: Current issues (pp. 294-325). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

O'Halloran, K., McGregor-Lowndes, M. and Simon, K. (2008). Charity law & social policy: National and international perspectives on the functions of the law relating to charities. Library of Public Policy and Public Administration (Vol. 10). New York: Springer.

$ Rooney, P.* “Differences in Religious and Secular Giving by Religious Attainment and Religiosity, in Issues in Religious Giving, (ed. David H. Smith), Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

Rooney. P. * (2006). Individual giving. In D. R. Young (Ed.), Financing nonprofits: Putting theory into practice (pp. 23-44). Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Smith, C., Emerson, M.O., & Snell, D. (2008). Passing the plate: Why more American Christians do not give away more money. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wing, K. T., Pollak, T. H., & Blackwood, A. (2008). The nonprofit almanac 2008. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.

Published Academic Papers

Ackerman, Deana and Auten, Gerald. 2006. Floors, Ceilings and Opening the Door for a Non-Itemizer Deduction. National Tax Journal. Vol 59, No. 3, 509-530.

Brooks, Arthur. 2007. Income tax policy and charitable giving. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 26:3. 599-612.

Brown, E. * (2005). Married couples’ charitable giving: Who and why. New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, 50, 69-80.

Brudney, J. L., & Gazley, B. (2006). Moving ahead or falling behind? Volunteer promotion and data collection. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 16(3), 259-276.

Carter, V. B., & Marx, J. (2007). What motivates African-American charitable giving: Findings from a national sample. Administration in Social Work, 31(1), 67-85.

Chen, Daniel and Jo Thori Lind, Religion, welfare politics, and church-state separation, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1, Winter 2007.

Guo, C., & Peck, L. R. (2009). Giving and getting: Charitable activity and public assistance. Administration & Society, 41(5), September 2009, 600-627.

Hughes, P. (2006). The economics of nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 16(4), 429-450.

$ Osili, Una Okonkwo* and Dan Du. 2005. “Immigrant Assimilation and Charitable Giving” in Exploring Black Philanthropy: New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising (Number 48, Summer 2005) edited by Patrick Rooney and Lois Sherman. Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Preston, Anne. 2006. "Volunteer Services and In-Kind Donations." In Dennis Young, ed., Financing Nonprofits: Bridging Theory and Practice. (New York: Altamira Press).

$ Rooney, Patrick,* Eleanor Brown *, and Debra Mesch,* Who decides in giving to education: A study of charitable giving by married couples, International Journal of Educational Advancement, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2007) 229-242.

Rooney, P. *, Steinberg, K. * & Schervish, P. G. (2004). Methodology is destiny: The effect of survey prompts on reported levels of giving and volunteering. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33(4), 628-654.

$ Steinberg, Richard* and Mark Wilhelm.* 2003. “Tracking Giving Across Generations” in New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising (Number 42, Winter 2004) edited by Dwight F. Burlingame. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

$ Steinberg, Richard,* and Mark Wilhelm*. 2005. "Religious and Secular Giving, by Race and Ethnicity" in Exploring Black Philanthropy: New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising (Number 48, Summer 2005) edited by Patrick Rooney and Lois Sherman. Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

$ Wilhelm, Mark,* Rooney, Patrick,* and Tempel, Eugene,* “Changes in Religious giving Reflect Changes in Involvement: Age and Cohort Effects in Religious Giving, Secular Giving, and Attendance,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 46 no. 2, June 2007

$ Wilhelm, Mark.* 2006. “New Data on Charitable Giving in the PSID.” Economics Letters. Elsevier, vol. 92(1), pages 26-31, July.

$ Wilhelm, Mark,* “The Quality and Comparability of Survey Data on Charitable Giving,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, March 2007.

Dissertations/Job Market Papers

Nesbit, R. (2008). The institutional context of volunteering: The impact of families, paid labor, state policies, and military service. Indiana University.

Reinstein, David (2006). “Does One Contribution Come at the Expense of Another? Empirical Evidence on Substitution Among Charitable Donations.” Mimeo, University of California - Berkley. (Job: University of Essex, lecturer)

Schortgen, Alicia Corinne, Ph.D., “The face of donors in America: Who gives and why it matters,” The University of Texas at Dallas (public affairs), 2006

Siegel, S. Y. (2006). Three essays in public economics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Siegel, Sarah Y. (2005). "The Interaction of Risk Preferences, Religiosity, and Gender in Explaining Risky Behaviors.” MIT. (Job: Abt Associates).

Song, Z. (2007). Essays on good public contribution. Queens University, Canada.

Stuntz, Lori (2006). “Altruism or egoism? Charitable giving and the federal income tax.” University of Texas at Austin (economics). Dissertation.

Stuntz, L. E. (2007). Essays on taxation. University of Texas at Austin.

Swanson, E. T. (2007). Real wage cyclicality in the PSID. (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper 2007-15). Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54(5), 617-647.

Yörük, B. (2008). Three essays on the economics of charitable giving: Implications for fundraising and public policy toward the non-profit sector. Boston College.

Reports or analyses for public distribution

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2008). Bank of America study of high-net worth household philanthropy. Indianapolis, IN.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2005). Bank of America study of high-net worth household philanthropy. Indianapolis, IN.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2008). Georgia gives 2008: Charitable giving in Georgia. Indianapolis, IN.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2008). Indiana gives 2008: Charitable giving in Indiana. Indianapolis, IN.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2008). Giving Memphis 2008: The report on philanthropy in the Memphis region for 2007. Indianapolis, IN.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2008). Fall issue of Philanthropy Matters featured many articles summarizing findings from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2009). Kansas City gives. Indianapolis, IN.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. (2009). Bank of America study of high-net worth household philanthropy (2nd ed.). Indianapolis, IN.

Center on Wealth and Philanthropy. (2005). Geography and generosity: Boston and beyond. The Boston Foundation, Boston: Havens, J., & Schervish, P.

Center on Wealth and Philanthropy. (2007). Geography and giving: The culture of philanthropy in New England and the nation. The Boston Foundation, Boston: Havens, J. J., & Schervish, P. G.

Giving in New England. New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, November 2005. Research conducted at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

Giving USA Quarterly, Issue 4, 2005. Giving USA Foundation (Glenview, IL). - note that the findings were published in TIME magazine issue of 12/26/05 re: people of the year (The Gates and Bono).

Giving USA Quarterly, Issue 4, 2007. Giving USA Foundation (Glenview, IL). COPPS data were used to estimate giving by non-itemizing households within geographic regions of the U.S.

Giving in Illinois. 2006. COPPS data used as national benchmark to compare with results from a state-wide survey.

Patterns of Household Charitable Giving by Income Group, 2005, a report prepared in 2007 and funded by Google, Inc. This study looked at the percentage of households donations going to various types of charities (religion, help people meet basic needs, education, etc.).

Working Papers

Brooks, Arthur., Syracuse University. "Income Tax Policy and Charitable Giving." Mimeo, Syracuse University. [published in 2007]

Brown, E. *, & Glick, S. (2005). Volunteer labor: Task or autonomy? Pomona College.

$ Brown, Melissa* and Patrick Rooney.* “Indexing Giving: Examining state-level data about itemized charitable deductions using known determinants of giving.” Mimeo, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. ARNOVA 2004

Brown, S., Harris, M., and Taylor, K. (2009). Modelling charitable donations to an unexpected natural disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Sheffield economic research paper series. University of Sheffield, UK.

Center on Wealth and Philanthropy. (2006). Center on Wealth and Philanthropy charitable giving indices: Social indicators of philanthropy by state. The Boston Foundation, Boston: Havens, J. & Schervish, P.

Chen, Daniel L. and Jo Thori Lind. (2005). “The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives and Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand.” Mimeo. University of Chicago. [published 2007]

Helms, Sarah, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Jeremy Thornton, Samford University, “Time or Money: A COPPS Investigation into Charitable Giving” ARNOVA 2007.

Hughes, Patricia and William Luksetich (2005). "Income and Wealth Volatility: The Effect on Charitable Giving." Mimeo, St. Cloud State University. ARNOVA 2005.

$ Hungerman, Daniel M., Richard Steinberg* and Mark Wilhelm* (2006). "Identifying Tax Effects on Charitable Giving." Mimeo, IUPUI

$ Osili, U., & Okten, C. (2005). Ethnic diversity and charitable giving. Mimeo, IUPUI.

$ Osili, U., & Steinberg, R. (2006). Community and charity in disaster relief. Mimeo, IUPUI.

$ Osili, Una Okonkwo* and Okten, Cagla (2007). Preferences for International Giving. Mimeo, IUPUI.

$ Osili, Una Okonkwo* and Jia Xia. (2006). “Do Immigrants Free Ride?” Mimeo, IUPUI.

Owens, Timothy and Yunqing Li (2006). “The Effect of Religious and Secular Volunteering and Charitable Giving on Helper Well-being.” Mimeo, Purdue University.

Rooney, P.,* and Brown, M., “Are Donors Stable over Time?” ARNOVA, Nov. 2007.

Shin, D., & Solon, G. (2008). Trends in men's earnings volatility: What does the panel study of income dynamics show? National Bureau of Economic Research.

Smith, Thomas (2005). “Religious Affiliation and Philanthropy.” Mimeo, University of Illinois– Chicago.

Straub, John D. 2004. “Empirical Evidence Separability and Substitutability of Charitable Contributions in Individual Utility Functions.” Mimeo, Tufts University.

$ Steinberg, Richard,* Mark Wilhelm *, Eleanor Brown*, and Patrick Rooney* (2002). “Inheritance and Charitable Donations.” Mimeo, IUPUI.

Wilhelm, M. O. * (2006). The 2001 Center on Philanthropy Panel Study user’s guide. Mimeo, IUPUI.

$ Wilhelm, Mark* (2006). “The Quality and Comparability of Survey Data on Charitable Giving.” Mimeo, IUPUI. [published, 2006 and 2007, Economics Letters and NVSQ]

$ Wilhelm, Mark* (2006). “Hausman Tests for Censored Regression Models.” Mimeo, IUPUI.

$ Wilhelm, Mark*(2005).“Basic Facts about Charitable Giving from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study.” Mimeo, IUPUI (paper provided to the U.S. Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis).

$ Wilhelm, Mark* (2005). "Volunteering Data in the 2003 Center on Philanthropy Panel Study: A User’s Guide." Mimeo, IUPUI. (paper provided to the U.S. Government's Corporation for National and Community Service).

$ Wilhelm, Mark,* Eleanor Brown*, Patrick Rooney,* and Richard Steinberg.* (2006). “The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity.” Mimeo, IUPUI.

$ Wilhelm, Mark* and Robert Bandy (2007). "Family Structure and Income During Childhood and Subsequent Prosocial Behavior by Young Adults." Mimeo, IUPUI

$ Wilhelm, Mark O.,* Patrick Rooney,* Eugene Tempel* (2006). “Changes in Religious Giving Reflect Changes in Involvement: Age and Cohort Effects in Religious Giving, Secular Giving, and Attendance.” Mimeo, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. [published, JSSR, 2007]

$ Wilhelm, Mark* and Hungerman, Dan (2007). Identifying tax effects on charitable giving. Mimeo, IUPUI.

Grants

Wilhelm, Mark*. 2003-2006. “Family Background and Subsequent Helping Behavior.” NICHD ($215,958).

Media Coverage

Brooks, Arthur (2004). “Can Governments Kill Non-profits with Kindness?” Fraser Forum, p. 5-6. Brooks, Arthur. “Drink More, Earn More (& Give More).” The Wall Street Journal, p. A14, July 13, 2005.

Brooks, Arthur. “Drink More, Earn Morea (& Give More)” The Wall Street Journal p. A14. July 13, 2005

Friedman, Richard. “Behind each donation, a tangle of reasons.” World Volunteer Web, November 15, 1005. www.worldvolunteerweb.org/browse/volunteering-issues/volunteering-research. Viewed April 16, 2005.

“Why do people do nice things for other people?” Science & Theology News, online release, November 1, 2004. www.stnews.org/news-370.htm. Viewed April 16, 2005.

Work in Progress

Brooks, Arthur, Syracuse University. “An Empirical Test of the Golden Rule.”

Havens, John and Paul Schervish, Social Welfare Research Institute, Boston College. Dr. Havens and Professor Schervish are using COPPS to estimate the charitable giving of non-itemizers.

Hughes, Patricia and William Luksetich, Department of Economics, Saint Cloud University (Minnesota): “Giving and the Past.” Professors Hughes and Luksetich are studying the effects of past socio-economic circumstances on present-day giving.

Rooney, Dr. Patrick*, IUPUI. An empirical research study assessing giving to the nonprofit health sub-sector by the American public. The proposed study will examine causation effects of giving to the health sub-sector including the effects of differing disease states on donations to health as well as demographic differences between health donors and those giving to other sub-sectors such as arts and culture and human services.

Presentations

Abzug, Rikki (New School) and Natalie Webb (U.S. Naval Graduate School), “Gender, racial, educational, and occupational correlates of social justice activity via nonprofit volunteering.” ARNOVA 2007

ARNOVA Panel on “New Directions in Giving and Volunteering Surveys.” November 22, 2003.

Backus, Peter (University of Warwick). (2008). Substituting Donkeys for Religion?: Testing the Homogeneity of Philanthropy. Paper presented at 5th annual NCVO/VSSN "Researching the Voluntary Sector" Conference, Coventry, UK, Septemter 2008.

Bandy, Robert and Mark Wilhelm* (IUPUI). “Family Income During Childhood and Subsequent Charitable Giving of Young Adults.” ARNOVA 2003.

Brooks, Arthur (Syracuse University). “An Empirical Test of the Golden Rule.” ARNOVA 2003.

Brooks, Arthur, “Differential effects of tax deductions by subsector.” ARNOVA 2005.

Brown, E.* (2005, August). Married couples’ giving: Who decides and why it matters. Paper presented at Center on Philanthropy Symposium, Indianapolis, IN.

Hager, Mark (University of Texas at San Antonio), Jeffrey Brudney (Cleveland State University) and Christopher Toppe (independent scholar), “Measuring Volunteerism: The Current Population Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics” ARNOVA 2007

Hata, K. (2008, January 10). Google execs to address ‘Charity Gap.’ Read the message.

Hughes, Patricia (St. Cloud St. University). “Parental influence on charitable giving and volunteering.” ARNOVA 2005.

Hughes, Patricia and William Luksetich (Saint Cloud University). “Giving and the Past” –ARNOVA 2003.

Hughes, Patricia and William L. Luksetich (Saint Cloud University) "Income and Wealth Volatility: The Effect On Charitable Giving." Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, 2004.

McDonald, Mary, Aaron Lowen, Maria Gajewski, and Korrie Ottenwess (all of Grand Valley State University) “Hispanic Volunteering and Impact on Giving Behaviors,” ARNOVA 2007.

Mesch, D. *, & Rooney, P. * (2005, August). Are there differences in giving and volunteering by race, gender and marital status? Paper presented at Center on Philanthropy Symposium, Indianapolis, IN.

$ Osili, U.O. *, & Steinberg, R. * (2006, July). Community and charity in disaster relief. Paper presented at ISTR Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.

$ Osili, U.O., & Steinberg, R. (2006, November). Community and charity in disaster relief. Paper presented at ARNOVA Conference, Chicago, IL.

Rooney, P.* and Brown, M.,* “Are Donors Stable over Time?” ARNOVA, Nov. 2007

Rooney, P.,* and Brown, M.,* “A Donors Hierarchy of Philanthropy?” ARNOVA, Nov. 2007.

Rooney, Patrick,* Melissa Brown,* and Reema Bhakta, Giving directed at the needs of the poor: Methods used in the online report Patterns of Household Charitable Giving by Income Group, 2005, ARNOVA 2007

Smith, Thomas (University of Illinois–Chicago). “Religious Affiliation and Philanthropy” ARNOVA 2003.

Straub, John (Texas A&M). “Household Supply of Charitable Contributions and Volunteer Labor.” ARNOVA 2003.

Steinberg, R. * (2003, August). Giving: The next generation – parental effects on donations. Paper presented at the Center on Philanthropy Symposium, Indianapolis, IN.

Steinberg, Richard* and Mark Wilhelm* (IUPUI). “Patterns of Giving and Volunteering in COPPS 2001.” ARNOVA 2003.

Wang, L. (2008, November). Education and health care donation: Examining the differences of donor groups. Paper presented at ARNOVA Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Webb, N., & Abzug, R. (2005, November). Cultural preconditions of giving: Family values and disposable income as context for occupational/industry/professional. Paper presented at ARNOVA Conference, Washington, D.C.

$ Wilhelm, Mark* (IUPUI). “Changes in the tax code: Impact on Philanthropy.” ARNOVA 2005.

Wilhelm, M. *, Brown, E. *, Rooney *, P., Steinberg, R. *, & Osili, U. * (2008, November). Colloquy: New insights in donors from the COPPS. Presentation at ARNOVA Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

$ Wilhelm, Mark*, Ottoni and Daniel Hungerman, “Identifying Tax Effects on Charitable Giving,” ARNOVA 2007

*Wilhem, Mark* and Brown, Melissa.* “Generation X: Not as Generous as Expected.” ARNOVA 2006.

Yoshioka, T. (2006, June). Patterns of overall giving in COPPS 2003. Paper presented at the JANPORA (Japanese NPOs Research Association) Annual Conference, Niigata, Japan.

 

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