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Rebate subsidies, matching subsidies and isolation effects

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Douglas D. Davis

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In a series of recent experiments (Davis, Millner and Reilly, 2005, Eckel and Grossman, 2003, 2005a-c, 2006), matching subsidies generate significantly higher charity receipts than do theoretically equivalent rebate subsidies. This paper reports a laboratory experiment conducted to examine whether the higher receipts are attributable to a relative preference for matching subsidies or to an ``isolation effect'' (McCaffery and Baron, 2003, 2006). Some potential policy implications of isolation effects on charitable contributions are also

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Article provided by Society for Judgment and Decision Making in its journal Judgment and Decision Making.

Volume (Year): 1 (2006)
Issue (Month): (July)
Pages: 13-22
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Keywords: Experiments; charitable contributions; methodology.;

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  1. Catherine Eckel & Philip Grossman, 2008. "Subsidizing charitable contributions: a natural field experiment comparing matching and rebate subsidies," Experimental Economics, Springer, vol. 11(3), pages 234-252, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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