Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip Johnson - In: Experiments investigating fundraising and charitable …, (pp. 157-175). 2006
An individual should be indifferent between a rebate subsidy of rate sr and a matching subsidy of rate sm=sr/(1-sr), and the total amount received by the charity should be the same regardless of subsidy type. Recent laboratory and field experiments contradict these straightforward predictions of...