Taking the Well-being of Future Generations Seriously: Do People Contribute More to Intra-temporal or Inter-temporal Public Goods?

Gilles Grolleau (), Angela Sutan and Radu Vranceanu

No WP1313, ESSEC Working Papers from ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School

Abstract: We investigate the dynamics of cooperation in public good games when contributions to the public good are immediately redistributed across contributors (intra-temporal transfers) and when contributions to the public good by the current group are transferred over time to a future group (inter-temporal transfers). We show that people are more cooperative in inter-temporal contexts than in intra-temporal contexts. We also find that subjects invest more on average in public goods when they know in advance their inheritance from the past.

Keywords: Public goods; Voluntary contribution mechanism; Inter-temporal vs intra-temporal transfers; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2013-09
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Working Paper: Taking the Well-being of Future Generations Seriously: Do People Contribute More to Intra-temporal or Inter-temporal Public Goods? (2013)
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