The impact of challenge gifts on charitable giving: An experimental investigation

Economics Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-159

  List, John A ^a   Rondeau, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charitable giving; Experiments; Threshold public goods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037401727     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00300-2     Document Type: Article

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