competition between charities. Do people have a need to satisfy their demand for giving by contributing to a particular charity … relative price of giving to a randomly selected charity in the choice set by introducing a matching grant. I find weak … substitution between charities when giving to more than one charity is possible, as the donated amounts to individual charities …

We propose a model of charity competition in which informed giving alone can explain quality heterogeneity across …

themselves by distance; fundraising (through matching) for one charity raises checkbook giving to that charity, irrespective of … observability of charities' location such that each donor faces a socially close 'home' and a distant 'away' charity. We find that … distance; but checkbook giving to the unmatched charity is not affected. For lead donors, this implies that the social distance …