Calendrier du 06 septembre 2022
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 06/09/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
HUANG Yuchen (PSE)
What motivates political and charitable donations? Evidence from a survey experiment
écrit avec Julia Cagé and Moritz Hengel
In many countries, both charitable and political donations benefit from generous - and often similar - tax incentives. While a large literature has studied the tax-price elasticity of charitable giving, little is known on political donations. Using a large-scale survey experiment runned one week before the French Presidential elections, we study the characteristics of the donors, in particular whether they know the existing tax schemes and investigate whether it varies depending on political preferences. We show in particular that - conditional on controlling for a large set of covariates, far-right voters tend to give less to charities, but not to political parties. We then investigate the relative efficiency of different tax schemes, and document that repealing the existing non refundable income-tax credit decreases charitable donations but not the political ones, pointing toward more fiscal incentives behind charitable giving. Matching increases the amount received by both political parties and charities.