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

Jochimsen, Beate - 2019

of the donation. Using a Heckman selection model we show, first, that traditional public finance theory can be confirmed …-Auswahlmodell zeigen wir zunächst, dass die traditionelle Theorie der öffentlichen Finanzen bestätigt werden kann. Wirtschaftlich stärkere …

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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016

legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …

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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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