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The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity.

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¹Department of Economics, IUPUI and Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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Parental charitable behavior strongly influences adult children's generosity, especially religious giving. This intergenerational correlation mirrors that of income and wealth, suggesting generosity is partly learned.

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Area of Science:

Economics
Sociology
Behavioral Science

Background:

Understanding the determinants of charitable giving is crucial for non-profit organizations and policymakers.
Intergenerational transmission of behaviors and values is a key area of socioeconomic research.
Previous studies have explored intergenerational correlations in economic behaviors, but less focus has been on charitable giving.

Purpose of the Study:

To estimate the correlation between parental and adult children's charitable giving.
To compare the strength of intergenerational giving correlations with those of income, wealth, and consumption.
To investigate the influence of parental charitable behavior on children's giving patterns.

Main Methods:

Utilized new charitable giving data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
Employed regression models with various techniques and specification tests.
Compared intergenerational giving correlations with income, wealth, and consumption correlations using the same controls.

Main Results:

Strong positive correlation found between parents' and children's religious giving, comparable to income and wealth correlations.
Smaller correlation observed for secular giving (e.g., United Way, education, poverty relief), similar to consumption expenditure correlations.
Parents' religious giving showed a positive association with children's secular giving, though to a lesser extent.

Conclusions:

Generosity appears to be influenced, at least in part, by parental charitable behavior.
Parental influence on charitable giving may complement, rather than counteract, government policies like tax incentives.
Findings suggest that encouraging parental charitable giving could reinforce societal goals for voluntary transfers.