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The Choose-Your-Charity Tax: A Way to Incentivize Greater Giving
Aaron S. Edlin, UC Berkeley

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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.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Aaron S. Edlin, "The Choose-Your-Charity Tax: A Way to Incentivize Greater Giving" (November 1, 2005). Berkeley Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series. Paper 179.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/blewp/art179

 
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