Charitable Giving by Married Couples Revisited
利用PSID数据重新检验了性别差异和家庭议价对慈善捐赠的影响，发现单独决策时男女捐赠倾向不同，而夫妻共同决策比单独决策使捐赠额增加近7%。
Abstract:This paper investigates the effect of gender differences and household bargaining on charitable giving. I replicate the study of Andreoni, Brown, and Rischall (2003) using a different data set—the recently available Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) supplement on charitable giving—and test the sensitivity of their results to inclusion of additional control variables and the endogeneity of the tax price of giving. First, focusing on singles, I find that males and females have significantly different tendencies toward giving to different areas of charitable activity. Next, comparing households in which husband and wife make a joint decision on donations with those in which couples separately decide or assign a sole decisionmaker, I show that bargaining over giving increases the amount of charitable contributions by almost 7 percent.