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

Aaron S Edlin

Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

Abstract: 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: taxation; charity; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09-10
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