Published work
Research
I work as an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. I am also affiliated with the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy. I study charitable giving from a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective. Starting May 2010, my work is funded by a 'Veni'-grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Read a summary of my research proposal 'Generous People, Stingy Nations or Stingy People, Generous Nations? Explaining Cross-national Differences in Donations to Charitable Organizations' here. Together with other sociologists I have published on philanthropic behavior in –among others- Social Forces, Voluntas and the Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
I am a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. I am also board member and founding member of the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP), and lecture at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on the subject of empirical sociology and methodology. also Vice President of Regional Associations for ICSERA, the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations. I am a member of the research committee of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, based at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
Wiepking, Pamala, and Russell James III. (forthcoming). Why Are the Oldest Old Less Generous? An Explanation for the Unexpected Age-related Drop in Charitable Giving. Accepted for publication in Ageing & Society.
Wiepking, Pamala, Wendy Scaife, and Katie McDonald. (in press). Motives and Barriers to Bequest Giving: The Willing and the ‘Unwilling’. Published online first in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour.
Wiepking, Pamala, and Beth Breeze. (2012). Feeling Poor, Acting Stingy: The Effect of Money Perception on Charitable Giving. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 17(1): 13-24.
Wiepking, Pamala, and René Bekkers. (2011). Testing Mechanisms for Philanthropic Behaviour. Special issue of International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 16(4).
Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). Testing Mechanisms for Philanthropic Behaviour. Introduction to special issue of International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 16(4): 291-297.
Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). Who Gives? A Literature Review of Predictors of Charitable Giving I – Religion, Education, Age and Socialization. Voluntary Sector Review 2(3): 337-365.
Bekkers, Rene and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). Accuracy of Self-reports on Donations to Charitable Organizations. Published online first in Quality & Quantity 45 (6): 1369-1383.
Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). A literature review of empirical studies of philanthropy: Eight mechanisms that drive charitable giving. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 40(5): 924-973.
Wiepking, Pamala, and Merijn Heijnen. (2011). The Giving Standard: Conditional Cooperation in the Case of Charitable Giving. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 16(1): 13-22.
Boonstoppel, Evelien, and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). Geven door vermogende Nederlanders. Pp. 165-185 in Theo Schuyt & Barbara Gouwenberg (Eds.). Geven in Nederland 2011. Giften, Legaten, Sponsoring en Vrijwilligerswerk. Reed Business: Amsterdam.
Wiepking, Pamala. (2011). Vrijgevigheid in beeld: Nationale acties voor het goede doel in Nederland. Mens & Maatschappij 86(1): 88-110.
Wiepking, Pamala. (2010). Democrats support international relief and the upper class donates to art? How opportunity, incentives and confidence affect donations to different types of charitable organizations. Social Science Research 39: 1073-1087.
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. Voluntas 21(2): 240 - 263.
Wiepking, Pamala, Kym Madden, and Katie McDonald. (2010). Leaving a Legacy: Bequest Giving in Australia. Australasian Marketing Journal 18: 15-22.
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. You can order the book at Amsterdam University Press. Book Review bij Leigh N. Hersey in Voluntas 22(1):195-196.
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. 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.
Please email me if you like more information on any of these papers.
Submitted work
Wiepking, Pamala and René Bekkers. (2011). Who Gives? A Literature Review of Predictors of Charitable Giving II – Gender, Marital Status, Income and Wealth. Revise and resubmit, Voluntary Sector Review.
Boonstoppel, Evelien, and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). Geven als een sociaal dilemma. Motivationele, strategische en structurele verklaringen voor geefgedrag door vermogende Nederlanders. Revise and resubmit, edited volume Mens & Maatschappij 2012, edited by Vincent Buskens and Ineke Maas.
Working papers
Wiepking, Pamala. (work in progress). Generous People, Generous Nations. Explaining International Differences in Charitable Giving.
Wiepking, Pamala, René Bekkers, Una Osili and David Reinstein. (work in progress). Abstract for Explaining Differences in Charitable Giving in Europe using the European Social Survey.
Wiepking, Pamala and Ferry Koster. (work in progress). Effects of public and private social expenditures on individual wellbeing: a cross-national study. Presented at the Dag van de Sociology, Gent, May 26, 2011.
Wiepking, Pamala, and Christopher Einolf. (work in progress). Cross-national Gender Differences in Giving. Presented at the 39th ARNOVA Conference, November 2010 and at the 3rd ERNOP Conference, June 2011 in Vienna.
Chris Einolf and Pamala Wiepking. (work in progress). Cross-national differences in the importance of educational achievement for prosocial behavior.
Conference
Populaire wetenschap
"Nationale acties voor het goede doel" . Interview bij Hoe?Zo! radio over artikel in Mens & Maatschappij over de geschiedenis en het succes van nationale acties, 22 maart 2011 (11.53 min. tot 18.30 min.).
"Filantropie, it’s a women’s world". Meegewerkt aan artikel en quote, Opzij, 1 september 2010.
"Doel ondergeschikt aan actie zelf". Interview in Eindhovens Dagblad over de Serious Request actie van 3fm in 2010, 10 oktober 2010.
"Geven doet de gulle gever zelf veel plezier" Volkskrant zaterdag 7 augustus 2010, met Theo Schuyt.
"Goud doel zoekt rijke gever op" Voorpagina Trouw, zaterdag 24 april 2010 (link naar online versie).
"Het vermogen om te geven" Resultaten van drie verkennende onderzoeken naar geefgedrag van vermogende Nederlanders.
"Haiti: Giro555, Heb jij al gegeven?" Voorpagina NRC Next donderdag 21 januari 2010.
"Geven omdat het hoort." Artikel op kennislink over mijn proefschrift "For the Love of Mankind".
"Waarom geven mensen aan goede doelen?" Artikel met René Bekkers op kennislink over zeven mechanismen achter het geven van geld aan goede doelen.
"Niets om weg te geven?" Artikel op kennislink over verschillen tussen mensen met hoge en lage inkomens in het geven van geld aan goede doelen .
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.
