An Empirical Study to Investigate the Size of Non-Governmental Organizations in OECD Countries

Authors

  • Ayşe Nil Tosun Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Public Finance Department, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey
  • Ayfer Ezgi Yılmaz Faculty of Science, Department of Statistics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN211130011T

Keywords:

The size of non-governmental organizations , Third sector , Population heterogeneity , Econometric modeling , Economic and social factors

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the factors affecting the size of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from a multinational perspective. Empirical analyses were conducted through econometric modeling, and the data of the 17 countries from 2003 to 2019 were used. The data was obtained from the World Bank and OECD database. We used advanced panel data estimation techniques (CUP-FM and CUP-BC) to obtain long-run coefficients. GDP per Capita, general government final consumption expenditure, adult education at tertiary level, and Gini index growth declined grants by private agencies and NGOs’ contribution to GDP (GinGDP) initially but after a threshold level, GinGDP increased with growth at later stages of these variables. Urban population growth, employment, and foreign population have reducing effect on the size of NGOs. The size of NGOs has bidirectional causality relationship between GDP per capita, adult population at tertiary education level, employment to population ratio, and Gini index; and unidirectional causality between urban population growth, general government final consumption expenditure, and foreign population. 

JEL: L30, C23

 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Ayşe Nil Tosun, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Public Finance Department, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey

 

 

Ayfer Ezgi Yılmaz, Faculty of Science, Department of Statistics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

 

 

Downloads

Published

2024-03-15

How to Cite

Tosun, A. N., & Yılmaz, A. E. (2024). An Empirical Study to Investigate the Size of Non-Governmental Organizations in OECD Countries. Panoeconomicus, 71(2), 243–263. https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN211130011T

Issue

Section

Original scientific paper