Is the Supply of Charitable Donations Fixed? Evidence from Deadly Tornadoes

We thank the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy for financial support. We thank Yuci Chen, Arash Farahani, Chitra Jogani, and Dana Shaat for excellent research assistance. We thank Maja Adena, Wojciech Kopczuk, Rob McClelland, Una Osili, Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Sarah Smith; seminar participants at Drexel University and the University of Illinois; and participants at the 2016 ASSA meetings, the 2016 ARNOVA Conference, the 2018 Science of Philanthropy Initiative Conference, the 2018 National Tax Association Annual Conference, and the 2020 Mid-Midwest Applied Microeconomics Workshop for their helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.