The design of charitable fund-raising schemes: Matching grants or seed money
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Charitable fund-raising; Matching grants; Public goods;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
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