Charitable donations are more responsive to stock market booms than busts

Economics Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 166-169

  List, John A ^a,b   Peysakhovich, Yana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Charitable giving; Private provision of public good

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650290082     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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