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- Title
MINIMUM LEVELS AND FRAMING IN PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION.
- Authors
Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; Persson, Emil
- Abstract
Using a laboratory experiment in the field, we examine how the framing of a social dilemma, give to or take from a public good, interacts with a policy intervention that enforces a minimum contribution level to the public good. We find significantly higher cooperation in the give frame than in the take frame in our standard public goods experiment. When a minimum contribution level is introduced, contributions are crowded out in the give frame but crowded in in the take frame. Our results show the importance of choosing the frame when making policy recommendations.
- Subjects
ETHIOPIA; PUBLIC goods; COOPERATION; POLICY sciences; HOUSEHOLDS
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 2019, Vol 57, Issue 3, p1568
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecin.12768