TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hungerman,Daniel M.
TI  - Race and Charitable Church Activity
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13323
PY  - 2007
Y2  - August 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13323
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13323.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daniel M. Hungerman
Department of Economics
University of Notre Dame
439 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5602
Tel: 574/631-4495
Fax: 574/631-4783
E-Mail: dhungerm@nd.edu
AB  - The availability of public funding for charitable church activity has increased dramatically in the past decade. A key dispute over this increased availability is whether congregations' propensity to provide charitable services depends upon the racial composition of the community served.  This paper uses three different congregation-level datasets to investigate how race affects charitable church activity.  In all three datasets there is evidence that all-white congregations become less charitably active as the share of black residents in the local community grows.  This response is found only when looking at charitable activities, not when looking at other types of church activity.  Additionally, all-white congregations favorably disposed towards receiving government funding do not respond differently to black residents than do congregations which are not all-white.
ER  -