美国慈善公益捐赠的成就在世界范围内常被当成标杆,相比之下,我国国人的公益捐赠相对落后。当前,学界对追高公益捐赠的呼声愈加强烈,然而我国个人公益捐赠是否越高越好值得深思。中美个人公益捐赠的基本原理往往一致,即影响个人公益捐赠的因素群大致相同,仅因所处的社会阶段不同而表现出差异性。对于中美个人公益捐赠的现实差距,可从文化、政治体制、经济发展阶段、公益慈善组织状况四个维度探析原因,但衡量我国个人公益捐赠水平的关键维度却在于资源公益效率,因而需应用需求溢出理论对个人公益捐赠前后的资源公益效率进行比较,打破不断追求个人公益捐赠的迷思。 The achievements of charity donations in the United States are often regarded as benchmark in the world. In contrast, the charity donations of our countrymen are relatively backward. At present, the voice of chasing high charitable donations is growing stronger and stronger in academia. However, it is worth pondering whether the personal charity donation in our country is as high as possible. The basic principles of personal public welfare donations in China and the United States tend to be the same. That is to say, the groups of factors that influence the donation of personal charities are roughly the same. They only show differences due to the different social stages. For the reality of the difference between China and the United States personal donations, from the four dimensions of culture, political system, stage of economic development, charity organizations to explore the reasons, but the measure of the level of China’s personal donation is the key dimension of resource public welfare efficiency, which requires the application The theory of demand spillovers compares the efficiency of resource public welfare before and after the donation of individual public welfare, and breaks the myth of continuous pursuit of personal charity donation.