Behavioral spillovers in local public good provision: An experimental study

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Angelovski, A., Di Cagno, D., Güth, W., Marazzi, F. and Panaccione, L. 2018. Behavioral spillovers in local public good provision: An experimental study. Journal of Economic Psychology. 67, pp. 116-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.05.003
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TitleBehavioral spillovers in local public good provision: An experimental study
AuthorsAngelovski, A., Di Cagno, D., Güth, W., Marazzi, F. and Panaccione, L.
Abstract

In a circular neighborhood, each member has a left and a right neighbor with whom(s) he interacts repeatedly. From their two separate endowment amounts individuals can contribute to each of their two structurally independent public goods, either shared only with their left, respectively right, neighbor. If most group members are discrimination averse and conditionally cooperating with their neighbors, this implies intra- as well as inter personal spillovers which link all neighbors. Investigating individual adaptations in one’s two games with differing freeriding incentives confirms, through behavioral spillovers, that both individual contributions anchor on the local public good with the smaller free-riding incentive. Therefore asymmetry in gaining from local public goods allows to establish a higher level of voluntary cooperation.

KeywordsPublic goods; Behavioral spillovers; Experiments; Voluntary contribution mechanism
PublisherElsevier
JournalJournal of Economic Psychology
ISSN0167-4870
Electronic1872-7719
Publication dates
Online21 May 2018
Print01 Aug 2018
Publication process dates
Deposited09 Oct 2019
Accepted15 May 2018
Submitted26 Jan 2017
Output statusPublished
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© 2018. This author's accepted manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.05.003
Web of Science identifierWOS:000440961700008
LanguageEnglish
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