The Far-Right Donation Gap
Pré-publication, Document de travail: We document a widespread decline in the share of donors to charities in Western countries over the past decade, and show that this can be in part explained by a lower propensity to donate among far-right voters. Focusing on France, we first conduct a large-scale survey (N = 12, 600) and show that far-right voters are significantly less likely to report a charitable donation than the rest of the population, conditional on a rich set of controls. Second, using administrative tax data for the universe of French municipalities (N 33, 000) combined with electoral results, we find that the negative relationship between vote shares for the far right and charitable donations holds in a broad range of specifications, at both the extensive and the intensive margin, and controlling for municipality fixed effects. Third, we exploit unique geo-localized donation data from several charities and document similar patterns. All evidence points towards a drop in the propensity to donate driven by a shift in social norms that threatens general acceptance of the charitable sector.
Mots-clés JEL
Mots-clés
- Charitable giving
- Political donations
- Far-right
- Social norms
- Underlying preferences
- Communal moral values
- Universalist moral values
Référence interne
- World Inequality Lab Working Papers n°2023-15
Pages
- 39 p.
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1