I test whether economic incentives dampen peer effects in public-good settings. I study how a visible and subsidized contribution to a public good (installing solar panels) affects peer contributions that are neither subsidized nor visible (electing green power). Exploiting spatial variation in...

Fourteen years have passed since the Renewable Energy Act of 2008 was enacted in the Philippines. Under the law, net-metering was implemented as a non-fiscal incentive mechanism to encourage residential households to switch to solar energy. Yet the majority of the country's residential...