What exactly is public in a public good game? A lab-in-the field experiment

P. Battiston, Simona Gamba, M. Rizzolli, V Rotondi

Risultato della ricerca: Working paper

Abstract

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.
Lingua originaleEnglish
Numero di pagine20
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2018

Keywords

  • Public goods, lab-in-the-field experiment, cooperation, group behavior, community, indivisibility

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