Philanthropy in Israel: An Updated Picture

Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, December 2017

58 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2020

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Claude Berrebi

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Public Policy; Hebrew University - School of Public Policy ; Princeton University; UCLA; RAND Corporation; Taub Center

Hanan Yonah

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Public Policy

Date Written: December 31, 2017

Abstract

In the last few decades, philanthropy in Israeli society has changed and along with the traditional charitable giving, a new kind of modern philanthropy has emerged. This empirical study aims to profile modern Israeli philanthropists, and to present the characteristics that are linked to donation amounts, donor generosity, and the link between donor characteristics and the likelihood to donate. The study results show differences in Israeli philanthropic behavior that are linked to a variety of economic and socio-demographic variables.First, everything else being equal, female-headed households tend to be more generous in terms of donation as a percent of income. However, male headed households contribute higher amounts on average. Second, new immigrant philanthropists contribute significantly higher amounts than their Israel-born counterparts and long-time residents. With each additional year of residence in Israel, assimilating and integrating into its society, giving generosity decreases, converging to the level of Israel-born donors. Philanthropists originating from the United States and Western Europe contribute the highest amounts and are found to be the most generous donors compared to those originating from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.The gap between these groups has widened considerably since 2000.Merging philanthropists’ data with the Central Bureau of Statistics Household Expenditure Survey, shows that philanthropist households differ from the general population in virtually every category examined. All of the results are statistically significant and robust to alternate specifications.

Keywords: philanthropy, Israeli, labor, charitable giving, prosocial, donation, immigrant

JEL Classification: H00, H8, J00, J01, J08, J18

Suggested Citation

Berrebi, Claude and Yonah, Hanan, Philanthropy in Israel: An Updated Picture (December 31, 2017). Taub Center for Social Policy Studies, December 2017, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3629246

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