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

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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; Jeu du bien public; transferts intergénérationnels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09-25
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