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Relationship among ‘Secular Giving’, ‘Religious Giving’ and Traditional ‘Mutual-aid Giving’ in Korean Households

Chul Hee Kang 1 편창훈 2 오장용 2

1연세대학교
2연세대학교 사회복지대학원

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ABSTRACT

This study attempts to examine the relationships between religious giving & mutual- aid giving and secular giving in Korean households. Data used for this study is the ‘National Survey of Tax and Benefit’ (NSTB) which has been collected at the form of panel data by Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF). Controlling for effects of household factors and financial indicators of households, it showed that religious giving has a substitutive relationship with secular giving in terms of amount of giving and philanthropic effort. Mutual-aid giving has a complementary relationship with secular giving in terms of amount of giving, not philanthropic effort. Among control variables, the following variables are statistically significant; education level of householders, house ownership, household income, and amount of other expenditures. This study contributes to building new knowledge about the relationships among various forms of giving at household level. Particularly, this study makes us understand that the relationships on secular giving can be different in a society with different culture: complementary with mutual aid giving and substitutive with religious giving in Korea. Indeed, it broadens and deepens our understanding of the relationships among each form of giving. Moreover, this study makes us realize that such analysis can provide significant contextual knowledge for governmental policy interventions on secular giving.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.