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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Identifying Non-Cooperative Behavior Among Spouses: Child Outcomes in Migrant-Sending Households
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Private provision of discrete public goods with incomplete information
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the private provision of discrete public good games with incomplete information and continuous contributions and show that in this range of cost, the subscription game is superior to the contribution game.
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The Determinants of Voluntary Financial Disclosure by Nonprofit Organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore what motivates organizations to the disclosure of information about their donors, and propose a framework to understand the motivations of organizations to be more open to the public.
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Justifying the Lindahl solution as an outcome of fair cooperation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how the Lindahl equilibrium can be deduced from some simple equity axioms, such as the benefit principle on the one hand and the equal sacrifice principle as a postulate for distributional equity on the other.
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Prosocial behavior: Private contributions to agriculture's impact on the environment
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of prosocial behavior that elaborates the roles of nonhedonistic values held by agents as well as the functional interaction between private good and public good production processes is considered.
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A Treatise on the Family
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Are Government Bonds Net Wealth
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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.