Voluntary Participation and Spite in Public Good Provision Experiments: an International Comparison

Timothy Cason (), Tatsuyoshi Saijo and T. Yamato

Working Papers from Purdue University, Krannert School of Management - Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

Abstract: This paper studies public good provision in the laboratory using the voluntary contribution mechanism, in a cross-cultural experiment conducted in the United States and Japan. Our environment differs from the standard voluntary contribution mechanism because in one treatment, subjects first decide whether or not to participate in providing this public good. This participation decision is conveyed to the other subject prior to the subjects' contribution decisions.

Keywords: EXPERIMENTS; PUBLIC GOODS; TESTING (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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