On the behavioural relevance of optional and mandatory impure public goods

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.04.002" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.04.002</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2017.04.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.joep.2017.04.002</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the behavioural relevance of optional and mandatory impure public goods
Original language description
Impure public goods combine a private good with a public good. Often, impure public goods have a charitable or ethical dimension, giving ethically motivated consumers a convenient option to contribute to public goods through the marketplace (in addition to direct donations). Impure public goods could potentially promote ethical giving or alternatively hinder charitable behaviour. We implement an economics experiment with a between-subject design to test the behavioural relevance of impure public goods with only a token (i.e. small) contribution to a public good. Contributions to the public good are negatively affected by the presence of impure public goods with token contributions. We explore one mechanism to offset this negative impact by making the token impure public good mandatory. We observe higher average contributions and several positive impacts on charitable behaviour, which supports the claim that this mechanism can potentially offset the negative impact of impure public goods.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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