Estimating Charitable Deductions in Giving USA

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 548-567

  Deb, Partha ^a   Wilhelm, Mark O ^b   Rooney, Patrick M ^c   Brown, Melissa S ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Charitable giving; Determinants of giving; Donors; Individual giving; Timeseries forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344585456     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764003258502     Document Type: Review

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