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
Type | Article |
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Title | Does heterogeneity spoil the basket? The role of productivity and feedback information on public good provision |
Authors | Angelovski, 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. |
Keywords | Public goods; Behavioral spillovers; Voluntary contribution mechanism; Heterogeneity; Experiment |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Journal | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics |
ISSN | 2214-8043 |
Electronic | 2214-8051 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 13 Sep 2018 |
01 Dec 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Oct 2019 |
Accepted | 12 Sep 2018 |
Submitted | 26 Jan 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | © 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.socec.2018.09.006 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000450343000005 |
Language | English |
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