... Publishing Limited 2008 Charitable donations Individual behaviour Giving, i.e. the volunteering of time and the donating of money [1] are vast phenomena in both Canada and the USA. In the USA in 2001, 89 percent of households donated money and the average annual contribution was $1,620 per...

... of price is especially statistically significant for males, but not so for females. This may be because males might be more likely to itemize their tax returns, making the deduction for donations of cash particularly important. Women Men Altruism Individual behaviour Charitable donations Non...

... of these organizations can widely be considered to represent public goods (Kingma, 1989 ; Jones and Posnett, 1994 ; Khanna et al., 1995). Karen Pittel can be contacted at: kpittel@ethz.ch © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Charitable donations Government policy In many...