Does the government crowd-out private donations? New evidence from a sample of non-profit firms

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-345

  Payne, A Abigail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charitable donations; Crowd out; Government grants; H4; H41; H42; Non profit organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002853911     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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