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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Variable valuations and voluntarism under group selection: An evolutionary public goods game.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that this type of solution, recently recognized in the social sciences, is evolutionarily stable and evolves in evolutionary simulations sensitive to alternative ways of gaining fitness beyond the present social group.
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Mancur Olson – Social Scientist
TL;DR: Olson's Logic of Collective Action as mentioned in this paper was a seminal work in the field of social science, focusing on the problem of how individuals acting in their private interest can fail to secure the provision of goods or services that are collectively in the interests of all.
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Family model of contributions to non-profit organizations and labour supply
TL;DR: In this article, a model is presented in which the family decides the labour supply of both spouses and their time donations to non-profit organizations, and Spanish data was used which showed that family size and pre-school children influence decisions made about time distribution of husband and wife.
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Group Cooperation Under Alternative Peer Punishment Technologies: An Experiment
Marco Casari,Luigi Luini +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors experimentally study peer punishment under three alternative technologies and find that the choice of peer punishment technology has a substantial impact on group performance and that punishment is not perceived as a second-order public good but an emotional reaction unresponsive to changes in the strategic environment.
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Charitable giving to humanitarian organizations in Spain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study influences on private donations in Spain and find that the variable that most strongly predicts giving is income and that lack of knowledge of the charities better explains low giving among most specific demographic groups.
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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.