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We examine the relationship between the price of giving and the decision to contribute in a framed field experiment (n …
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The literature on voluntary provision of public goods includes recent theoretical work on the formation of voluntary coalitions to provide public goods. Theory is ambiguous on the equilibrium coalition size and contribution rates. We examine the emergence of coalitions, their size, and how...
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lifting) matter less when individuals are more patient and altruistic, or exhibit less negative reciprocity. To account for …
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We study how reelection concerns affect reciprocity by elected leaders to the voters who elected them. If showing … reciprocity? We present a signalling model of candidate behavior, where we show that candidates may limit intrinsic reciprocity to … for instrumental purposes. We then present an experiment that tests these ideas in the laboratory and finds support for …
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Two heterogeneous agents contribute over time to a joint project, and collectively decide its scope. A larger scope requires greater cumulative effort and delivers higher benefits upon completion. We show that the efficient agent prefers a smaller scope, and preferences are time-inconsistent: as...
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costly contracts or expensive reputations. Concurrently, experiments suggest that reciprocity is a potent substitute for law …
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Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...
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begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …
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This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to study political distortions in the accumulation …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public …
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