Does Public Policy Crowd Out Private Contributions to Public Goods?

Karine Nyborg and Mari Rege

Discussion Papers from Statistics Norway, Research Department

Abstract: It is sometimes claimed that individuals' contributions to public goods are not motivated by economic costs and benefits alone, but that people also have a moral or norm-based motivation. A number of studies indicate that such moral or norm-based motivation might be crowded out, or crowded in, by public policy. This paper discusses some models that can yield insight into the interplay between economic and moral or norm-based motivation for voluntary contributions to public goods, and compares their policy implications. We distinguish between four types of models: Altruism models, social norm models, models of commitment and the cognitive evaluation theory.

Keywords: Private provision; altruism; social norms; commitment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 H41 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-06
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