The journal “International Advances in Economic Research”   contains the article  Charitable Donations: Evidence of Demand for Environmental Protection? by Debra K. Israel. This article  is an analyzing  the 2001 Giving and Volunteering in the United States survey in order to understand the connections between households and charitable donations to environmental organizations. Which gives way to the research question of how do factors such as levels of income, education, being female, home-ownership, and ability are relate to likelihood of charitable donations to environmental organizations. Since the reasons behind someone donating are many and varied the data type needed to answer the research question is survey data as it allows for collection from a large amount of people and questionnaires can cover enough of the factors to draw conclusions for the question. The analytical approached used in this article is stated as a sensitive analysis so it may fall under a type of analysis we do not cover in the course but can somewhat be compared to a descriptive analysis due to working with large amounts of data. I found this article to be very well done as the author during the analysis mentions that just because the data shows a specific trend doesn’t mean that it reflects why some households are more or less charitable since the information is being gathered from individuals. It is also very thorough as it also makes use of regression to see if there are any non-factors among the projected factors used in the research. One interesting thing I found in this article is that being female has no impact on the likelihood of donations but being Latino does slightly impact the likelihood of donations.

This article can found online in “International Advances in Economic Research” Issue 13 Vol 2 May 2007.

Link to article: http://0-web.b.ebscohost.com.books.redlands.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=64ff7b4d-2728-48eb-a39a-a20c418f547e%40sessionmgr104&hid=129