Race and Charitable Church Activity

Daniel M. Hungerman

NBER Working Paper No. 13323
Issued in August 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

Thanks to Avner Ben-Ner, Eli Berman, Charles Clotfelter, Daniel Chen, William Evans, Jonathan Gruber, Jason Hwang, Laurence Iannaccone, Gregory Krohn, Erzo F. P. Luttmer, David Matsa, Rachel McCleary, Steve Pischke, James Poterba, Alessandro Tarozzi, Jacob Vigdor, and numerous conference and seminar participants for comments. Special thanks to Mark Chaves and Nancy Martin for help with the NCS data, and to representatives of denominations 1 and 2. This research was supported by the Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector of the Social Science Research Council, the Louisville Institute, the Metanexus Institute, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Email the author at dhungerm@nd.edu. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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