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Table 1 Linear regression of religious beliefs and party membership on donation amount

From: Capital with beliefs—a study of charitable donations of private business owners in Wenzhou, China

 

Donation amount in 2008

Donation amount in 2009

Owner is a party member (reference = owner as nonparty member)

5.632*

11.115***

 

(3.910)

(3.910)

Owners with religious beliefs (reference = owner with no religious beliefs)

9.933***

9.196***

 

(3.451)

(3.579)

Owners taking part in panreligious behavior

3.992***

4.170****

 

(1.346)

(1.289)

Entrepreneurs have party membership and/or religious faith (reference = owner with neither religious faith nor party membership)

8.536**

10.035**

 

(4.243)

(4.342)

Four-way division (reference = owner with neither religious faith nor party membership)

  

Nonparty members, believe in religion

7.464*

4.513**

 

(5.156)

(5.250)

Party members, do not believe in religion

1.301

2.799

 

(6.083)

(6.626)

Party members, believe in religion

14.342***

18.586****

 

(5.072)

(5.182)

  1. Table presents nonstandardized coefficients and brackets for standard errors. Control variables not presented here include tax amount, headquarters location, enterprise ownership type, subordinate companies, trust in government, and trust in charitable organizations. Full tables are available upon request
  2. *P < 0.1;**P < 0.05;***P < 0.01, ****P < 0.001 (two-tailed test)