Partial Versus General Compulsory Solidarity: an Experimental Analysis

Andrej Angelovski, Arianna Galliera and Werner Güth ()
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Werner Güth: Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2019, vol. 36, issue 3, No 7, 249-279

Abstract: Abstract We focus on ways and means of solidarity and their more or less voluntary and involuntary character. Alternative ways of redistribution are modeled by combining redistribution as emergent from a non-discriminatory voluntary contribution mechanism, VCM, with an outside option for a “super-rich”, R, participant to donate to VCM participants. The outsider may discriminate between participants of the VCM on the basis of information accessible at a cost to her. Inclusion in and exclusion from the VCM are involuntary while contributions in it are voluntary. How involuntary inclusion of R in VCM affects her discriminatory voluntary donations and contribution behavior is explored experimentally.

Keywords: Compulsory solidarity; Collective goods; Charitable giving; Inequality; C72; C91; C92; D63; D64; H44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s41412-019-00093-6

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