The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity.
The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity.
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慷慨的代际传承。
DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.04.004
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Steinberg,Richard
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作者：
Wilhelm,MarkO;Brown,Eleanor;Rooney,PatrickM;Steinberg,Richard
本文利用成年子女慈善捐赠的回归模型，估计了父母的慷慨和他们成年子女的慷慨之间的相关性。新的慈善捐赠数据收集在收入动态的小组研究，并用于估计回归模型。回归模型估计使用各种各样的技术和规格测试，代际给予相关性的强度进行比较，收入，财富和消费支出的代际相关性从同一样本使用相同的控制。我们发现父母和孩子的宗教奉献是密切相关的，就像他们的收入和财富一样密切相关。世俗给予的相关性（例如，父母和子女对联合劝募会、教育机构、扶贫等的捐款较少，与消费的代际相关性在程度上相似。父母的宗教奉献与孩子的世俗奉献呈正相关，但在更有限的意义上。总的来说，研究结果与慷慨行为相一致，至少部分来自父母慈善行为的影响。在代际模型中，父母对子女的慷慨可以撤销政府的转移政策（Riccillo等值），这些结果表明，父母对慈善组织的慷慨可能会加强政府的政策，如旨在鼓励自愿转移的税收优惠。
This paper estimates the correlation between the generosity of parents and the generosity of their adult children using regression models of adult children's charitable giving. New charitable giving data are collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and used to estimate the regression models. The regression models are estimated using a wide variety of techniques and specification tests, and the strength of the intergenerational giving correlations is compared with intergenerational correlations in income, wealth, and consumption expenditure from the same sample using the same set of controls. We find the religious giving of parents and children to be strongly correlated, as strongly correlated as are their income and wealth. The correlation in the secular giving (e.g., giving to the United Way, educational institutions, for poverty relief) of parents and children is smaller, similar in magnitude to the intergenerational correlation in consumption. Parents' religious giving is positively associated with children's secular giving, but in a more limited sense. Overall, the results are consistent with generosity emerging at least in part from the influence of parental charitable behavior. In contrast to intergenerational models in which parental generosity towards their children can undo government transfer policy (Ricardian equivalence), these results suggest that parental generosity towards charitable organizations might reinforce government policies, such as tax incentives aimed at encouraging voluntary transfers.