Peer-Reviewed Academic & Policy Contributions

Highest Cited (Google Scholar), in order of publication year:

1. “Diversity and Donations: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving,” NBER Working Paper #176118, with James Andreoni, Justin Smith, and David Karp, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 128: 47-58, 2016

2. "Charitable Giving,” with James Andreoni, chapter 1 in the Handbook of Public Economics, Alan Auerbach, Raj Chetty, Martin Feldstein, and Emmanuel Saez, editors, 2013

3. "Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities,” with James Andreoni, Journal of Public Economics, 95(5-6): 334-343 (previous versions of the paper were under the title “Crowding Out Both Sides of the Philanthropy Market: Evidence from a Panel of Charities”, NBER Working Paper #16372), June 2011

4. "The Impact of State Governance Structures on Management and Performance of Public Organizations: A Study of Higher Education Institutions,” with Jack Knott, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23(1), 13-30, 2004

5. "Do Government Grants to Private Charities Crowd Out Giving or Fund-raising?” with James Andreoni, The American Economic Review, 93(3), 792-812, 2003

6. "Estimating the Effects of Federal Research Funding on Universities using Alumni Representation on Congressional Appropriations Committees?” with Aloysius Siow, Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy; BePress, 3(1), 1-22, 2003

Additional Publications (Peer-Reviewed Academic & Policy Reports)

7.    "Tax Reported Charitable Giving in Canada 1987-2018," with Ross Hickey and Justin Smith, forthcoming, Canadian Public Policy

8.    “Understanding the Efficacy of Tax Credits for Charitable Donations in Canada,” with Ross Hickey and Justin Smith, Canadian Tax Journal, 72(2), 317-328, 2024

9. “The Effect of Tax Price on Donations: Evidence from Canada,” with Ross Hickey, Bradley Minaker, Joanne Roberts, and Justin Smith, National Tax Journal 76(2), 2023

10.    “The Sensitivity of Charitable Giving to the Timing and Salience of Tax Credits” with Ross Hickey and Bradley Minaker, National Tax Journal, 72(1): 79-110, 2019

11.      “Does Income Inequality Increase Charitable Giving?” with Justin Smith, Canadian Journal of Economics, 48(2), 2015

12.    “Do grants to charities crowd out other sources of income? Evidence from the UK,” with James Andreoni and Sarah Smith, Journal of Public Economics, 114: 75-86 (previous version NBER Working Paper #18998), 2014

13.       “The First-Time Donor Credit: Sound Policy or Short-Term Fix?” Canadian Tax Journal, 61:4, 1091-1101, 2013

14.     “Changing Landscapes for Charities in Canada:  Where Should We Go?”, SPP Research Papers, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol 5, issue 34, 2012

15. “Government Oversight of Public Universities: Are Centralized Performance Schemes Related to Increased Quantity or Quality?” with Joanne Roberts, Review of Economics and Statistics 92(1):207-212, 2010

16. "Does Government Funding Change Behavior? An Empirical Analysis of Crowd Out,” NBER Tax Policy and the Economy, 23: 159-184, 2009

17.    “Lending a Hand: How Federal Tax Policy Could Help Get More Cash to More Charities,” E-brief 88, C.D. Howe Institute, 2009

18.    “Private Foundations Deserve Same Tax Treatment as Public Charities,” C.D. Howe Institute E-Brief, No. 38, 2007

19.    “Firm Foundations: Putting Private and Public Foundations on Level Ground,” C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder, No. 88, 2005

20.  “The Effects of Congressional Appropriation Committee Membership on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding to Universities,” Economic Inquiry, vol. 41(2), 325-46, 2003

21.   “The Role of Politically Motivated Subsidies on University Research Activities,” Educational Policy, 17(1), 12-37, 2003

22.    “Do Congressional Earmarks Increase Research Productivity at Universities?” Science and Public Policy, 29(5), 314-330, 2002

23.     “Measuring the Effect of Federal Research Funding on Private Donations at Research Universities: Is Federal Research Funding More than a Substitute for Private Donations?” International Tax and Public Finance, 8, 731-51, 2001

24.       “State Governance of Higher Education,” with Jack Knott, Institute of Government and Public Affairs Report, University of Illinois, 2001

25.     “An Empirical Study of Matching Grants: The ‘Cap on CAP’,” with Michael Baker and Michael Smart, Journal of Public Economics, 72(2), 269-88, 1999

26.     “Does the Government Crowd-Out Private Donations to Charity? New Evidence From a Sample of Non-profit Firms,” Journal of Public Economics, 69(3), 323-345, 1998

27. “The Impact of Federal Fiscal Arrangements: Evidence from the ‘Cap on CAP’,” with Michael Baker and Michael Smart, Policy Options, 1998

Contributions to Books:

28.   “The Impact of Government Funded Initiatives on Charity Revenues,” with Bradley Minaker, CESifo book on The Economics of Philanthropy, edited by Kimberly Scharf and Mirco Tonin, 2018

29. "Individual Fundraising – The Power of the Personal?”, with Kimberly Scharf and Sarah Smith, in CESifo Seminar Series, Social Economics: Current and Emerging Avenues, Joan Costa-Fonat and Mario Macis, editors, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2017

30. “Do Government Grants to Private Charities Crowd Out Giving or Fundraising?” with James Andreoni, publication reprinted in The Economics of Philanthropy and Fundraising, edited by James Andreoni. Part of the collection: "International Library of Critical Writings in Economics" (Mark Blaug, general editor), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, 2013

31. "Earmarks and EPSCoR: Shaping the Distribution, Quality, and Quantity of University Research,” in David Guston and Daniel Sarewitz, editors, Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research, edited by David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

Works in Progress

32. “Family Dynamics and Charitable Giving” (working title)

33. “Community Resilience and Charitable Giving” (working title), with Sarah Smith

Unpublished Manuscripts

34. “Social Fundraising” with Kimberly Scharf and Sarah Smith 2019

35. “Crowding Oot: The Effect of Government Grants on Donors, Fundraisers, and Foundations in Canada” (previously titled “Crowding-out Charitable Contributions in Canada: New Knowledge from the North,” NBER Working Paper #17635), with James Andreoni, 2014

Non-Peer-Reviewed Reports/Commentary

36.      “Charitable Giving in Australia is Bouncing Back, but Not Quite to Pre-Pandemic Levels,” Taking the Pulse of the Nation Report, 2022

37.      “Australians are Helping Neighbours More but Donating and Volunteering Less” Taking the Pulse of the Nation Report, 2021

38.      “Will Isolation and Social Distancing Make Us Less Generous?” MI Research Insight, 2020

39.      “High Rates of Food Insecurity, but Few Australians Getting Help,” with Ferdi Botha, Taking the Pulse of the Nation Report, 2022

40.      “Social Services Workforce Model Report,” with Steeve Marchand, 2021

41.      “Can Tweaking Tax Treatment of Donations Support Disaster Relief?” with Ross Hickey, Bradley Minaker, and Tessa Grimmond MI Research Insight, 2019

42.     “Government Funding and Private Charitable Donations: The Canadian Experience,” Research in Public Policy Issue 16, Centre for Markets and Public Organisations, University of Bristol, 2013

43.      “Diversity and Donations,” Research in Public Policy, Issue 14, Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, 2012

44.       Brief discussing issues around charitable giving prepared for House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, 2012

45.    Report on McMaster, University of Bristol University of Warwick, and JustGiving Survey of Online Fundraisers, Sponsors, and Donors: Summary of Responses, 2012

46.       Report discussing patterns in charitable giving and potential effects of recent tax policies affecting charitable giving for Peartree Financial, 2011

47.       Report on McMaster and Canada Helps Survey of Online Donors: Summary of Responses, 2011

48.      Response to comments made with respect to “Firm Foundations: Putting Private and Public Foundations on Level Ground,” Canadian Tax Journal, 53(3), 1-3, 2005

49.      “Role of Government Panel: The Culture Industry”, part of report for the Ontario Government, 2003