Published work
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. 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 executive director and secretary of the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP), and lecture at the VU University Amsterdam on the subject of pro-social behaviour. Furthermore, I am working as a staff member on the biannual Giving in the Netherlands publications, in 2010 I am specifically working on including a sample of High Net Worth households in the Panel Study. I am affiliated as Adjunct Fellow with the Australian Center of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and I am a member of the research committee of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, based at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (forthcoming). A literature review of empirical studies of philanthropy: Eight mechanisms that drive charitable giving. Accepted for publication in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Wiepking, Pamala. (forthcoming). Democrats support international relief and the upper class donates to art? How opportunity, incentives and confidence affect donations to different types of charitable organizations. Accepted for publication in Social Science Research.
Wiepking, Pamala, and Merijn Heijnen. (forthcoming). 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. 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. 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.
Please email me if you like more information on any of these papers.
Submitted work
Wiepking, Pamala, and Beth Breeze. (2009). Feeling Poor, Acting Stingy: The Effect of Money Perception on Charitable Giving.
Wiepking, Pamala, Wendy Scaife, and Katie McDonald. (2010). Motives and Barriers to Bequest Giving: The Willing and the ‘Unwilling’.
Working papers
Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (2010). Understanding Philanthropy. A Review of 45 Years of Theories and Research. Available at SSRN.
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.
Conference
Populaire wetenschap
"Het vermogen om te geven" Resultaten van drie verkennende onderzoeken naar geefgedrag van vermogende Nederlanders.
"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.
