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The research in this article (2010) tells a different story: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-wwln-t.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/ma

• paulddraper 8y ago
  The original research (not NYTimes journalism) is actually from 2001 [1] 1. Of the income groups studied, the highest percentage of income donated was from the <$25k group, with 4.2% ($587/yr), about one percent more than the 3.1% ($1,620/yr) average. But the study's highest income division was only $100k. Had they included more ranges, they would find that giving goes much higher, e.g. $200k-500k donates 8.3% and $2m+ donates 14.0%. [2] 2. Also in the original study (though absent from the NYTimes article nine years later), is the finding that more people donated at the higher income levels. 77% donated in the lowest income group, but 97% donated in the highest. And I would give that fact considerable weight for supporting the assertion "if the common folk of Europe were doing economically better, they would have been more generous". [1] http://www.cpanda.org/pdfs/gv/GV01Report.pdf http://www.cpanda.org/pdfs/gv/GV01Report.pdf [2] https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/who-gives https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/wh...