This paper studies philanthropic behaviour in terms of money and time contributions for charitable organisations. Using a unique dataset, which is representative of the German population, we examine the pure contributions of individuals who give either money or time as well as joint contributions of individuals who give both money and time. We find that the sequential decisions to give to charity and how much to give can be explained by different socio-economic characteristics. We report particularly pronounced gender differences among pure contributions, an interesting pattern of human capital variables such as income and education, and possible differences in the type of philanthropic goods.

本文根据慈善组织的金钱和时间贡献来研究慈善行为。通过使用代表德国人口的独特数据集，我们检验了付出金钱或时间的个人的纯贡献以及付出金钱和时间的个人的共同贡献。我们发现，对慈善事业的先后决定以及捐赠多少可以用不同的社会经济特征来解释。我们报告说，纯捐款之间的性别差异特别明显，有趣的人力资本变量模式（如收入和教育程度）以及慈善商品的类型可能存在差异。