The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Donations to Higher Education

Jeffrey R. Brown, Stephen G. Dimmock, Scott Weisbenner

NBER Working Paper No. 18389
Issued in September 2012

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The authors are grateful to the participants in the NBER Pre-Conference on the Financial Crisis and Higher Education for helpful comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Matt Hamill and Ken Redd of NACUBO and John Griswold of the Commonfund for assistance with data and for helpful discussions. Disclosure: Jeffrey R. Brown is a Trustee for TIAA. The TIAA-CREF family of companies includes an endowment management company (Covariance Capital) and a planned giving company (Kaspick). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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