We study the effects of leadership on the private provision of a public good when group members are heterogeneously … endowed. Leadership is implemented as a sequential public goods game where one group member contributes first and all the … of homogeneous endowments. Leadership is almost ineffective, though, if subjects do not know the distribution of …

We examine the effects of leading by example in voluntary contribution experiments. Leadership is implemented by … letting one group member contribute to the public good before followers do. Such leadership increases contributions in … granting the leader exclusion power. Whether leadership is fixed or rotating among group members has no significant influence …