Giving till It Helps? Alumnae Giving and Children's College Options

Autor/inn/en	Butcher, Kristin F.; Kearns, Caitlin; McEwan, Patrick J.
Titel	Giving till It Helps? Alumnae Giving and Children's College Options
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 54 (2013) 5, S.499-513 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-013-9284-9
Schlagwörter	Alumni; Donors; Private Financial Support; College Admission; Daughters; Sons; Probability; Single Sex Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Private Investition; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Daughter; Tochter; Son; Sohn; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Abstract	This paper examines whether donations to colleges and universities are partly motivated by the desire of alumni to increase their children's admissions probabilities. The paper uses data from a single-sex college, so that only alums with a daughter would evince this motive. We find that alums with a teenage daughter, as opposed to a teenage son, are more likely to make donations of at least $5,000. The same relationship is not evident for smaller donations, or when children are older than 18. Further, we find evidence that this difference in the probability of a donation by alums with teenage daughters and teenage sons does not exist when acceptance rates are higher in an earlier period. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10