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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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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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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in combination with government administrative data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458365
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Crowding In with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks
Kotchen, Matthew - 2019
limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism … impure altruism compared with pure altruism, we show that, in general, it can be either more or less. Second, we propose a … heterogeneity based on park and volunteer hour types, are theoretically consistent with the mainstay model of impure altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480388
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Anger and Regulation
Tella, Rafael Di - 2009
concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463448
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Kosher Pork
Drazen, Allan - 2011
Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spending as antithetical to responsible policymaking in times of crisis. In this paper we present an alternative view. When agents are heterogeneous in their ideology and in their information about the economic situation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461990
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Optimal Provision of Multiple Excludable Public Goods
Fang, Hanming - 2008
This paper studies the optimal provision mechanism for multiple excludable public goods when agents' valuations are private information. For a parametric class of problems with binary valuations, we demonstrate that the optimal mechanism involves bundling if a regularity condition, akin to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464849
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Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads : A Theory of Environmental Offsets
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2007
This paper examines voluntary provision of a public good that is motivated, in part, to compensate for other activities that diminish the public good. Markets for environmental offsets, such as those that promote carbon neutrality to minimize the impact of climate change, provide an increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464996
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Public Action for Public Goods
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2007
This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465745
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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467161