TY - UNPB
T1 - What exactly is public in a public good game? A lab-in-the field experiment
AU - Battiston, P.
AU - Gamba, Simona
AU - Rizzolli, M.
AU - Rotondi, V
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Are public good games really capturing individuals’ willingness to contribute to real-life public goods? To answer this question, we conducted a
lab-in-the-field experiment with communities who own collective goods. In
our experiment, subjects voluntarily contribute to a common pool, which
can either be subdivided in individual vouchers, as in standard public good
games, or used to acquire collective goods, as it happens for real-life public
goods. We show that participants’ contributions are larger when the voucher
is paid individually, suggesting that individuals’ willingness to contribute to
public goods may be overestimated when based on results from laboratory
experiments.
AB - Are public good games really capturing individuals’ willingness to contribute to real-life public goods? To answer this question, we conducted a
lab-in-the-field experiment with communities who own collective goods. In
our experiment, subjects voluntarily contribute to a common pool, which
can either be subdivided in individual vouchers, as in standard public good
games, or used to acquire collective goods, as it happens for real-life public
goods. We show that participants’ contributions are larger when the voucher
is paid individually, suggesting that individuals’ willingness to contribute to
public goods may be overestimated when based on results from laboratory
experiments.
KW - Public goods, lab-in-the-field experiment, cooperation, group behavior, community, indivisibility
KW - Public goods, lab-in-the-field experiment, cooperation, group behavior, community, indivisibility
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/147584
M3 - Working paper
BT - What exactly is public in a public good game? A lab-in-the field experiment
ER -