Hypothetical contingent valuation surveys used to elicit values for environmental and other public goods often employ variants of the referendum mechanism due to the cognitive simplicity and familiarity of respondents with this voting format. One variant, the double referendum mechanism,...

This paper investigates whether an individual's identity as a member of a social group and relative position in that group affects willingness to punish free-riders in a public goods game. Previous studies have demonstrated that allowing subjects to punish free-riders increases cooperation in...

This paper summarizes the results of two experiments designed to evaluate the applicability of incentive compatible mechanisms such as the pivot mechanism to determine the public's preferences for environmental public goods. The first experiment employs a variant of the pivot mechanism to...