id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt x346d22082h Hilary Anne Davidson Checks and Balances: Family Structure and Religious Financial Giving 2010 .txt text/plain 146 6 23 Though some progress has been made in ascertaining how family structure impacts giving, the extant literature offers limited insight into how decisions about religious financial giving are made at the household level. Religious financial gifts are crucial to the survival of religious institutions; parishioners collectively supply upwards of 90% of the annual revenue at three-quarters of American congregations (Chaves 2004). cache/x346d22082h.txt txt/x346d22082h.txt