Matching Contributions and the Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good: Experimental Evidence

Ronald Baker, James Walker and Arlington Williams

No 2006-007, CAEPR Working Papers from Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington

Abstract: Laboratory experiments are used to study the voluntary provision of a pure public good in the presence of an anonymous external donor. The external funds are used in two different settings, lump-sum matching and one-to-one matching, to examine how allocations to the public good are affected. The experimental results reveal that allocations to the public good under lumpsum matching are significantly higher, and have significantly lower within-group dispersion, relative to one-to-one matching and a baseline setting without external matching funds.

Keywords: public goods; free riding; laboratory experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2006-08, Revised 2007-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp and nep-pbe
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