Research

I work as an assistant professor at the Department of Philanthropic Studies at the VU University Amsterdam. I study charitable giving from a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective. My work is funded by a 'Veni'-grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Read my research proposal 'Generous People, Stingy Nations or Stingy People, Generous Nations? Explaining Cross-national Differences in Donations to Charitable Organizations' here.

My research interests include charitable giving, both in the Netherlands and from an international perspective, methodological aspects of charitable giving, and charitable giving by high and low income households. I am coordinator of the European Research Network on Philanthropy.

Published work

Wiepking, Pamala, and Merijn Heijnen. (accepted for publication). The Giving Standard: Conditional Cooperation in the Case of Charitable Giving. Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing.

Bekkers, Rene and Pamala Wiepking. (forthcoming). Accuracy of Self-reports on Donations to Charitable Organizations. Accepted for publication in Quality & Quantity.

Wiepking, Pamala and René Bekkers. (2010). Does Who Decides Really Matter? Causes and Consequences of Personal Financial Management in the Case of Larger and Structural Charitable Donations. Published online first in Voluntas.

Wiepking, Pamala, Kym Madden, and Katie McDonald. (2010). Leaving a Legacy: Bequest Giving in Australia. Accepted for publication in Published online first in Australasian Marketing Journal.

Wiepking, Pamala and René Bekkers. (2009). Explaining Differences in Charitable Giving in Europe. Pp. 185-191 in Harry Ganzenboom en Marion Wittenberg (Eds.). Nederland in Vergelijkend Perspectief. Tweede Nederlandse workshop European Social Survey. DANS: Den Haag

Wiepking, Pamala (Ed.). (2009). The State of Giving Research in Europe. Household donations to Charitable Organizations in Twelve Countries. Pallas Publications (Amsterdam University Press): Amsterdam, the Netherlands. order here.

Wiepking, Pamala. (2009). The Netherlands. Pp. 47-51 in Pamala Wiepking. The State of Giving Research in Europe. Household donations to Charitable Organizations in Twelve Countries. Pallas Publications (Amsterdam University Press): Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Wiepking, Pamala and Ineke Maas. (2009). Resources That Make You Generous: Effects of Human, Financial, and Social Resources on Charitable Giving. Social Forces 86 (June): 1973-1996.

Bekkers, Rene, Pamala Wiepking en Evelien Boonstoppel. (2009). Geven door huishoudens en individuen. Pp. 27-50 in Theo Schuyt & Barbara Gouwenberg. Geven in Nederland 2009. Giften, Legaten, Sponsoring en Vrijwilligerswerk. Reed Business: Amsterdam.

Wiepking, Pamala and René Bekkers. (2009). Geven door jongeren. Pp. 153-160 in Theo Schuyt & Barbara Gouwenberg. Geven in Nederland 2009. Giften, Legaten, Sponsoring en Vrijwilligerswerk. Reed Business: Amsterdam.

Wiepking, Pamala. (2009). Aan welk doel zal ik geven? Donaties aan goede doelen in Nederland. Pp. 25-41 in Bronner et al. (red.) Ontwikkelingen in het marktonderzoek. Jaarboek 2009 MarktOnderzoekAssociatie, 2009.

James III, Russell, and Pamala Wiepking. (2008). A Comparative Analysis of Educational Donors in the Netherlands. Forthcoming in the International Journal of Educational Advancement, 8(2).

Wiepking, Pamala. (2008). For the Love of Mankind. A Sociological Study on Charitable Giving. PhD Dissertation VU University Amsterdam, defended April 21, 2008.

Wiepking, Pamala. (2007). The Philanthropic Poor: In Search of Explanations for the Relative Generosity of Lower Income Households. Voluntas 18(4): 339-358.

Wiepking, Pamala. (2007). Een halve eeuw vrijgevigheid in beeld. Nationale acties voor het goede doel in Nederland. In Marco van Leeuwen en Vibeke Kingma (Eds.) Twee eeuwen filantropische voorbeelden.

Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (2006). To give or not to give, that's the question: How methodology is destiny in Dutch giving data. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 35 (3): 533-540. View published (short) version or View long version.

Wiepking, Pamala, and Ineke Maas. (2005). Gender Differences in Poverty: A Crossnational Study. European Sociological Review 21(3): 187-200.

Submitted work

Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (2009). Understanding Philanthropy. A Review of 45 Years of Theories and Research. Available at SSRN.

Wiepking, Pamala. (2009). Giving to Particular Charitable Organizations: Do Materialists Support Local Organizations and Do Democrats Donate to Animal Protection?

Wiepking, Pamala. (2009). Een halve eeuw vrijgevigheid in beeld. Nationale acties voor het goede doel in Nederland.

Wiepking, Pamala, and Beth Breeze. (2009). Feeling Poor, Acting Stingy: The Effect of Money Perception on Charitable Giving.

Please email me if you like more information on any of these papers.

Working papers

Wiepking, Pamala, Wendy Scaife, and Katie McDonald. (2009). Motives and Barriers to Bequest Giving: The Willing and the ‘Unwilling’.

Wiepking, Pamala. (work in progress). Generous People, Generous Nations. Explaining International Differences in Charitable Giving.

Wiepking, Pamala, and René Bekkers. (work in progress). Abstract for Explaining Differences in Charitable Giving in Europe using the European Social Survey.

Wiepking, Pamala, and Russell James III. (work in progress). Effects of Cognitive Abilities on Charitable Giving.

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Data: Giving in the Netherlands Panel Study (GINPS)
The Giving in the Netherlands Panel Study (GINPS, or in Dutch: Geven in Nederland) is a two-yearly research project concerning  household's donating behavior towards charitable causes.

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