Donation matching survey

I’ve been thinking about how people raise money for charity, and recently I’ve been wondering about how people perceive donation-matching offers. I’d love it if YOU, dear reader, could help me out a little by filling out a short survey about this. I think the results will be very interesting and will inform a lot of decisions, so any help would be appreciated!

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Donation matching survey results

A couple weeks ago I made a survey to try to figure out what people thought about donation matching. The survey got about 60 responses, which is enough for a reasonable analysis that turned up some interesting things. Here’s what I found. Contents Some jargon Survey design Research questions Caveats Results Are matches counterfactually valid? Do people (want to) give more due to the match incentive? How does belief about counterfactual affect donation reduction?

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