Endowment inequality in public goods games: A re-examination

Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam and Brock Stoddard

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 146, issue C, 4-7

Abstract: We present a clean test of whether inequality in endowments affects contributions to a public good. It is a clean test because, to our knowledge, it is the first to control for possible endowment effects. We find that the key adverse effect of inequality arises because the rich reduce their contributions when there is inequality.

Keywords: Public goods; Experiment; Inequality; Wealth; Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 D31 D63 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.07.015

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