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Gun For Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461626
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Diversity and Crowd-out : A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2007
Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by … altruism, are in this instance the most amenable to government intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465304
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Storm Crowds : Evidence from Zooniverse on Crowd Contribution Design
Barbosu, Sandra - 2017
Crowdsourcing - a collaborative form of content production based on the contributions of large groups of individuals - has proliferated in the past decade. Due to this growth, recent research has focused on understanding the factors that affect its sustainability. Prior studies have highlighted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453759
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Tobacco Spending and its Crowd-Out of Other Goods
Busch, Susan H. - 2004
Smoking is an expensive habit. Smoking households spend, on average, more than $1000 annually on cigarettes. For households in which some members smoke, smoking expenditures crowd-out other purchases, which may affect other household members, as well as the smoker. We empirically analyze how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467714
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Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences
Kaplow, Louis - 2008
Optimal policy rules--including those regarding income taxation, commodity taxation, public goods, and externalities--are typically derived in models with homogeneous preferences. This article reconsiders many central results for the case in which preferences for commodities, public goods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464477
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Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences
Kolstad, Charles D. - 2011
Why cooperation occurs when noncooperation appears to be individually rational has been an issue in economics for at least a half century. In the 1960's and 1970's the context was cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game; in the 1980's concern shifted to voluntary provision of public goods; in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461641
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International Environmental Agreements among Heterogeneous Countries with Social Preferences
Kolstad, Charles D. - 2014
Achieving efficiency for many global environmental problems requires voluntary cooperation among sovereign countries due to the public good nature of pollution abatement. The theory of international environmental agreements (IEAs) in economics seeks to understand how cooperation among countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458462
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Interdependent Preferences and the Mitigation of Market Failure
Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I consider the effect of caring, empathy, altruism or positive reciprocity towards others - which I collectively call … the public good converges to the efficient level. An increase in caring, empathy, altruism or positive reciprocity, an … efficiently is attributable to lack of empathy/altruism/positive reciprocity as well as to the free rider problem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191062
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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin
Caldeira, Emilie - 2012
We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel data from local governments' accounts and from surveys on 18,000 Beninese households performed in 2006 and 2007, our study suggests that decentralization has a positive overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460541
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Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa : A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2011
This paper uses historical census data from Burkina Faso to characterize local demographic pressures associated with internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to document change over time and differences across villages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460939