Year: 2018
Type: report
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.
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2914676366