Visible Minorities and Majority Giving

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ID12249042
AuthorsBenic Amankwaa (corresponding author), Rebecca A Devlin (0000-0002-1386-4700), Rose Anne Devlin
Year2016
Volume28
Issue2
Pages510-531
Publication date2016-06-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVoluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11266-016-9747-7
OpenAlexW2337774726
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited34

We examine if the presence of minority individuals in the community affects the decision to give to charities by majority individuals. We focus on two giving decisions by the majority population. The first is giving to any charitable organization; the second is giving to organizations geared to international causes. We also examine these two decisions when the sample is split into religious and non-religious individuals. We find that the larger the proportion of minorities in a given community, the less likely that members of the majority group give to charity in general—supporting the idea that heterogeneous communities deter outreach—but the more likely they are to give to international causes, giving credence to Allport’s ‘contact’ hypothesis

Credence · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Focus (optics · Minority group · Outreach · Political science · Population · Public relations · Religious organization · Sample (material · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Social Psychology

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