Daniel Hungerman

Assistant Professor
Economics and Econometrics

I am currently an assistant professor in the department of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Notre Dame. I am also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. My main research focus is Public Economics, and in particular religion and the determinants of philanthropic activity.

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Below are links to some of my research papers:

• The Church vs. The Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition? (July 2006, with Jonathan Gruber, forthcoming at the Quarterly Journal of Economics )
• Race and Charitable Church Activity (August 2007, forthcoming at Economic Inquiry )
• Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out During the Great Depression (May 2005, with Jonathan Gruber, published in the Journal of Public Economics)
• Are Church and State Substitutes? Evidence from the 1996 Welfare Reform (October 2004, published in the Journal of Public Economics)
• Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving (April 2007)
• The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation (August 2007, with Elizabeth Ananat)