"The Dependent Variable of the Independent Sector: A Research
Agenda for Improving the Definition and Measurement of Giving and Volunteering."
Paul G. Schervish. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit
Organizations 4, no. 2 (1993): 223-232.
This paper addresses three topics to
which researchers should turn their attention in regard to the dependent variable
of giving and volunteering.
"Do the Poor Pay More: Is the U-shaped Curve Correct?"
Paul
G. Schervish and John J. Havens. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 24,
no. 1 (Spring 1995): 79-90.
This paper reports selected findings from a larger research project involving
the quantitative investigation of societal, familial, and individual characteristics
that induce philanthropic behavior. The findings focus on the fundamental question:
"Do the poor (represented by lower income households) pay more than the wealthy
(represented by higher income households)?"
"Does Generosity Run in the Family?"
Paul G. Schervish.
Advancing Philanthropy: Journal of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives
1, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 26-29.
The number of millionaires in the United States could triple within the next 20 years, as wealth is transferred from the aging wealthy to their children. What can fund raisers expect when they knock on the doors of tomorrow's donors? A researcher on philanthropy and wealth discusses six factors that encourage a charitable commitment in the next generation.
"The Dynamics of Wealth Transfer: Behavioral Implications
of Tax Policy for What Will Happen to the $10 Trillion Transfer."
Thomas B. Murphy and Paul G. Schervish. Presented at the Independent Sector
1995 Spring Research Forum, "Nonprofit Organizations as Public Actors: Rising
to New Public Policy Challenges." Alexandria, VA, Mar. 23-24, 1995.
Throughout
the paper, we emphasize how specific elements of the tax code affect the strategic
choices the wealthy make about the alternative uses for their money. As such,
we look more at the social-psychological processes by which tax laws produce
their effects (especially in regard to philanthropy among the wealthy) than
at purely technical aspects of the legal environment.
