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

Aaron S Edlin

Berkeley Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper Series from Berkeley Program in Law and Economics

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.

Date: 2005-11-01
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