How does charitable giving respond to incentives and income? New estimates from panel data

National Tax Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 2 PART 2, 2011, Pages 615-650

  Bakija, Jon ^a   Heim, Bradley T ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charitable donations; Incentive effects of taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871185440     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2011.2s.08     Document Type: Article

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