On the private provision of public goods
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In this article, the authors consider a general model of non-cooperative provision of a public good and show that there is always a unique Nash equilibrium in the model and characterize the properties and the comparative statics of the equilibrium.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1986-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2237 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public good & Public goods game.read more
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Voluntary provision of a public good and individual morality
Marc Bilodeau,Nicolas Gravel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that there is no conflict between morality and Pareto-efficiency since any Kantian norm of behavior is Pare-to-efficient in games of voluntary provision of a public good.
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Self-Insurance and Self-Protection as Public Goods
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the interaction between public goods and market insurance and show that the availability of market insurance reduces the provision level of the public good for both, the public and the private provision, regardless of whether they consider self-insurance (SI) or self-protection (SP).
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Pumpkin Pies and Public Goods: The Raffle Fundraising Strategy
TL;DR: In this article, the economic incentives inherent in raffle fundraisers are explored, and it is shown that offering a prize can increase contributions to apublic good by more than the value of the prize.
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Intra-household experiments: a survey
TL;DR: The authors provide a survey of the recent experimental work on intra-household decision-making and discuss some of the challenges involved in doing experiments with couples and families and consider major areas that remain yet to be explored.
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: The Enlarged Edition as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of the evolution of the family and the state Bibliography Index. But it does not discuss the relationship between fertility and the division of labor in families.
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Are Government Bonds Net Wealth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the effects of different types of intergenerational transfer schemes on the stock of public debt in the context of an overlapping-generations model and show that finite lives will not be relevant to the capitalization of future tax liabilities so long as current generations are connected to future generations by a chain of operative inter-generational transfers.
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Economists free ride, does anyone else?: Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV
Gerald Marwell,Ruth E. Ames +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, closely related experiments testing the free rider hypothesis under different conditions, and sampling various sub-populations, are reported, and results question the empirical validity and generality of a strong version of the hypothesis.
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The private provision of a public good is independent of the distribution of income
TL;DR: When a single public good is provided at positive levels by private individuals, its provision is unaffected by a redistribution of income as discussed by the authors, regardless of differences in individual preferences and despite differences in marginal propensities to contribute to the public good.