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Motivate the crowd or crowd- them out? : the impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good

Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin - 2022

providing information on reference group behavior, we challenge this argument and conduct a framed-field experiment to analyze …

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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....

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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 …

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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers

Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019

cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Relative consumption preferences and public provision of private goods

König, Tobias; Lausen, Tobias - 2017

This paper shows that the public provision of private goods may be justified on pure efficiency grounds in an environment where individuals have relative consumption concerns. By providing private goods, governments directly intervene in the consumption structure, and thereby have an instrument...

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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...

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