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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Subsidizing charitable contributions with a match instead of a deduction: what happens to donations and compliance?
Abstract: The current U.S. income tax system subsidizes contributions to charities by allowing individual taxpayers to itemize and deduct contributions from taxable income. In effect, taxpayers can receive a rebate from the government based on the contributions they make to charitable organizations. Under one alternative system, the government matches the contributions of individual taxpayers at some rate between 0 percent and 100 percent. This paper explores the tax policy and administrative implications of matching rather than rebating contributions in a tax system with voluntary reporting. We conduct a novel experiment to examine both charitable giving and compliance behavior under the two regimes.
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Relational altruism and giving in social groups
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate a positive relationship between social group size and the number of donations; a negative relationship between group sizes and the size of individual donations; and no clear relationship between groups size and total amount raised.
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Indirect reciprocity with simple records.
TL;DR: It is shown that tolerant trigger strategies based on simple records can robustly support positive social cooperation in games with sufficient “strategic complementarity,” both in the prisoner’s dilemma and in some multiplayer public goods games, and the resulting cooperative equilibria have strong stability properties.
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Category Reporting in Charitable Giving: An Experimental Analysis
Jingping Li,Yohanes E. Riyanto +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated the impact of various reporting plans as described in Harbaugh (1998a and 1998b) on the behavior of donors and found that the presence of a category reporting plan induces the clustering of donations on the lower boundaries of categories, which suggests that donors are motivated by prestige.
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Climate Agreements in a Mitigation-Adaptation Game
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the strategic interaction between mitigation and adaptation strategies in a climate agreement and show that these two strategies are strategic substitutes considering various definitions of substitutability and that adaptation may cause mitigation levels between different countries to be no longer strategic substitutes but complements.
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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.