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Competitive Altruism and Endogenous Reference Group Selection in Private Provision of Environmental Public Goods

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2012

We develop and test a model of social comparison in which individuals gain status through pro-social behavior (competitive altruism) and in which they endogenously choose the reference group and associated reference standard involved in signaling status (reference group selection). In our...

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Inefficient but effective? : a field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanisms

Koppel, Hannes (contributor); … - 2008

We conduct a field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms. It shows that people are willing to donate significantly more if the donation is indirect, i.e., it is tied to the purchase of a good with a price premium, rather than made directly. This points to an...

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Inefficient but effective? : a field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanism

Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther G. - 2008

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Competitive altruism and endogenous reference group selection in private provision of environmental public goods

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2012

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Christmas lights in Berlin : new empirical evidence for the private provision of a public good

Jochimsen, Beate - 2019

The phenomenon of private contributions to public goods is broadly discussed in the literature. However, the possibility to verify theoretical results empirically is often limited because sufficient data on donors is lacking. Christmas lights in Berlin have been completely financed with private...

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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany

Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023

Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...

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Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.

Bayerlein, Michael - 2022

A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors … introduce the concept of spatial inequality, which describes the regional inequality within countries, and construct a measure … of public goods scarcity. I argue that the spatial inequality induced feeling of being left behind is positively …

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