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Household Charitable Giving at the Intersection of Gender, Marital Status, and Religion

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2018-02
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Eagle, D
Keister, LA
Read, JG
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Past research reveals mixed results regarding the relationship between gender and charitable giving. We show gender plays a significant role in giving but only when considered alongside marital status and religion. Using the 2006 Portraits of American Life Study, we model a household’s propensity to give and the amount given. We extend past research by disaggregating unmarried households to look at divorced, widowed, and never-married households, and by including multiple religion measures. Results indicate households headed by never-married females have lower giving levels compared with those headed by divorced and widowed women. In households headed by single males, these differences are largely absent. Religious attendance has a stronger association with giving in male-headed households. The respondent’s gender is also related to the amount married households report giving to charity. Future research on giving should consider both gender and marital status to more fully capture increasing diversity in American families.
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Journal article
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Social Sciences
Social Issues
marital status
gender differences
religion
charitable giving
UNITED-STATES
SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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LIFE-COURSE
COHABITATION
MARRIAGE
BEHAVIOR
MODELS
IMPACT
CONSERVATISM
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/17696
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10.1177/0899764017734650
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Eagle, D; Keister, LA; & Read, JG (2018). Household Charitable Giving at the Intersection of Gender, Marital Status, and Religion. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(1). pp. 185-205. 10.1177/0899764017734650. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/17696.
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Eagle

David E Eagle

Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
I am an Assistant Research Professor the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research and the Duke Global Health Institute. I am an expert on the health of religious clergy, the changing shape of churches in North American society, and the implications of these trends for the professional training of ministers.More recently, my research ha
Keister

Lisa A. Keister

Professor of Sociology
Lisa A. Keister is professor of sociology and public policy at Duke University and an affiliate of the Duke Network Analysis Center and the Duke Population Research Initiative. Her current research focuses on organization strategy, elite households, the processes that explain extremes in wealth and income inequality, and on group differences in the intergenerational transfer of assets. She has been focusing on the causes and consequences of net worth poverty recently with colleagues from the
Read

Jen'nan Read

Sally Dalton Robinson Professor
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