Analyzing Discontinuity between Resident Demand and Willingness to Pay Taxes

Kwang Kook Park

International Review of Public Administration, 2004, vol. 9, issue 2, 65-76

Abstract: This study investigates to what extent discontinuity between resident demand and willingness to pay taxes exists by categorizing the respondents as three groups: traditionalists, philanthropists and free-riders. The extensive survey was conducted with a stratified random sample of 500 respondents of Daegu Metropolitan Government. The analytic results show that about 70 percent of the respondents are identified as philanthropists or free-riders in the provision of cultural services. Among them, the free-rider problem is generally regarded as a threat to the adequate provision of public goods. The results also reveal that the magnitude of the free-rider problem varies according to the differences of demographic variables, such as gender, income, household size and age.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2005.10805050

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