The Price Elasticities of Charitable Contributions: A Meta-Analysis

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Who gives? A literature review of predictors of charitable giving. Part two: gender, marital status, income, and wealth (2012, methodology): “Using state-of-the-art methodology, Bakija and Heim (2008) found an elasticity of giving with respect to a persistent price change of –0.7 in the US, smaller than the average mean found in the meta-analyses by Peloza and Steel (2005).”
Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment (2010, background): “16This has been noted previously in studies on the relation between tax rules and charitable giving [Peloza and Steel 2005].”
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, methodology): “Reviews of these studies are given in Steinberg (1990), Simmons & Emanuele (2004), and Peloza and Steel (2005).”
Feeling poor, acting stingy: the effect of money perceptions on charitable giving (2012, background): “There is overwhelming evidence of an inverse correlation between the price of giving and philanthropic donations (Steinberg, 1990; Simmons and Emanuele, 2004; Peloza and Steel, 2005).”