Does heterogeneity spoil the basket? The role of productivity and feedback information on public good provision

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Angelovski, A., Di Cagno, D., Güth, W., Marazzi, F. and Panaccione, L. 2018. Does heterogeneity spoil the basket? The role of productivity and feedback information on public good provision. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 77, pp. 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2018.09.006
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TitleDoes heterogeneity spoil the basket? The role of productivity and feedback information on public good provision
AuthorsAngelovski, A., Di Cagno, D., Güth, W., Marazzi, F. and Panaccione, L.
Abstract

In a circular neighborhood of eight, each member contributes repeatedly to two local public goods, one with the left and one with the right neighbor. All eight two-person games provide only local feedback information and are structurally independent in spite of their overlapping player sets. Heterogeneity is induced intra-personally by asymmetric productivity in left and right games and inter-personally by two randomly selected group members who are less privileged (LP) by being either less productive or excluded from end-of-period feedback information about their payoffs and neighbors’ contributions. Although both LP-types let the neighborhood as a whole evolve less cooperatively, their spillover dynamics differ. While less productive LPs initiate “spoiling the basket” via their low contributions, LPs with no-end-of-round information are exploited by their neighbors. Furthermore, LP-positioning, closest versus most distant, affects how the neighborhood evolves.

KeywordsPublic goods; Behavioral spillovers; Voluntary contribution mechanism; Heterogeneity; Experiment
PublisherElsevier
JournalJournal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
ISSN2214-8043
Electronic2214-8051
Publication dates
Online13 Sep 2018
Print01 Dec 2018
Publication process dates
Deposited09 Oct 2019
Accepted12 Sep 2018
Submitted26 Jan 2018
Output statusPublished
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2018.09.006
Web of Science identifierWOS:000450343000005
LanguageEnglish
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