The Choose-your-Charity Tax: A Way to Incentivize Greater Giving

Aaron S. Edlin
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Aaron S. Edlin: UC Berkeley

The Economists' Voice, 2005, vol. 2, issue 3

Abstract: Why don’t people give more to charity? One reason is that the problems will be there whether individuals give or not. Here is a policy--inspired by the matching grants that charities use so effectively--that could actually make a real difference.

Keywords: I3; H; taxation; charity; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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