Chapter
Chapter 1 Charitable Giving
Abstract
This Chapter summarizes the overall facts about charitable giving. Charitable giving has remained an active and important area within Public Economics. Then also discusses about the four main approaches one could take to research on charitable giving. The first approach is to look at giving as a simple individual economic decision, where a quantity of gifts to supply is determined by maximizing a utility function subject to a budget constraint. …
Authors
Andreoni J; Payne AA
Book title
handbook of public economics, vol. 5
Series
Handbook of Public Economics
Volume
5
Pagination
pp. 1-50
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
2013
DOI
10.1016/b978-0-444-53759-1.00001-7