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The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods under Varying Endowment Distributions: Experimental Evidence

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dc.contributor.author Chan, Kenneth S. en_US
dc.contributor.author Mestelman, Stuart en_US
dc.contributor.author Moir, Robert en_US
dc.contributor.author Muller, Andrew en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:31:53Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:31:53Z
dc.date.issued 1992 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-12-13 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-12-13 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/738
dc.description.abstract "Field experience suggests that the management of a common property resource may be facilitated if there is a large stakeholder among the agents who are trying to manage the resource. The successful management of a common property resource can be viewed as the provision of a public good, for each user of the resource benefits from its proper management, and each has a private incentive to withdraw his contributions from the management of the resource. "Theory suggests that the distribution of individual resource endowments may affect the voluntary contributions individuals will make towards the provision of a public good (or maintenance of a common property resource). This paper presents the results of a series of laboratory sessions in which individuals are able to make voluntary contributions to an activity which will result in 'group' benefits (comparable to the maintenance of the common property resource). Five different distributions of endowments are studies. Preliminary results suggest that as the distribution of endowments becomes more equal, the total voluntary contributions towards the maintenance of the public good falls." en_US
dc.subject game theory en_US
dc.subject common pool resources--models en_US
dc.subject public goods and bads en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.title The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods under Varying Endowment Distributions: Experimental Evidence en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.subject.sector Theory en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Inequality and the Commons, the Third Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates September 17-20, 1992 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Washington, DC en_US
dc.submitter.email aurasova@indiana.edu en_US


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