Cappelen, Alexander W.; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, … - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014
We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments … the three leader treatments, we manipulate the level of compensation given to the leader. Our main finding is that a … moderate compensation to the leader is highly beneficial, it increases the average contribution by 63% relative to a situation …