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- Title
Prosocial behavior: Private contributions to agriculture's...
- Authors
Weaver, Robert D.
- Abstract
Private provision of public environmental benefits is considered with a theory of prosocial behavior that elaborates the roles of nonhedonistic values held by agents as well as the functional interaction between private good and public good production processes. The theory also identifies the conditions under which public environmental goods will be privately supplied and motivates an empirical approach. Models of environmental effort in agriculture are estimated based on a survey of U.S. field crop farmers. Results confirm the role of hedonistic motivation of environmental effort and provide very weak evidence of a role of nonhedonistic values.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENVIRONMENTAL economics; PERSONALITY disorders; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; MOTIVATION (Psychology); ALTRUISM; HEDONISM; AGRICULTURAL industries
- Publication
Land Economics, 1996, Vol 72, Issue 2, p231
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3146968