Disagreement = Counterfactuality for Matching Funds by ellie

Much has been said about how hard it is to have valid coun­ter­fac­tual match­ing funds.In par­tic­u­lar, to sum­ma­rize from Jeff Kauf­man here:The clear­est case of coun­ter­fac­tu­al­ity is “with ‘gen­eral’ dona­tion matches, like an em­ployer offer­ing to match dona­tions to any 501(c)3 or­ga­ni­za­tion.” The av­er­age 501(c)3 is so much less effec­tive than a highly effec­tive char­ity that, even if your em­ployer gives a fixed amount of money to char­ity, you can safely round to zero the p...