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050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aGruber, Jonathan.
245 10 $aFaith-based charity and crowd out during the Great Depression$h[electronic resource] /$cJonathan Gruber, Daniel M. Hungerman.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2005.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 11332
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 7/28/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"Interest in religious organizations as providers of social services has increased dramatically in recent years. Churches in the U.S. were a crucial provider of social services through the early part of the twentieth century, but their role shrank dramatically with the expansion in government spending under the New Deal. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the New Deal crowded out church charitable spending in the 1930s. We do so using a new nationwide data set of charitable spending for six large Christian denominations, matched to data on local New Deal spending. We instrument for New Deal spending using measures of the political strength of a state's congressional delegation, and confirm our findings using a different instrument based on institutional constraints on state relief spending. With both instruments we find that higher government spending leads to lower church charitable activity. Crowd-out was small as a share of total New Deal spending (3%), but large as a share of church spending: our estimates suggest that church spending fell by 30% in response to the New Deal, and that government relief spending can explain virtually all of the decline in charitable church activity observed between 1933 and 1939"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
650 0 $aChurch charities$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y1918-1945.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1933-1945.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 11332.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/W11332