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Estimating private provision of public goods with heterogenous participants: A structural analysis

This paper estimates a structural model of private provision of public goods to provide some new empirical evidence on individuals' strategic contributing behaviors. In the model, individuals' contributing behaviors are allowed to be heterogenous and time-varying. We show that all the main components of the model including the number of different contributing strategies, functional form for each strategy, and how individuals adjust their strategies are identified from the revealed contribution choices of individuals. Further, the structural model is estimated using the data collected in a threshold public good experiment. The empirical results suggest that subjects in our experiment employ three contributing strategies, and they strategically respond to provision history by adjusting their preceding behavior. In addition, the response is heterogenous and dependent on subjects' contributing strategies.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP18/15

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Public Goods
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Thema
Public Goods
Private Provision
Measurement Errors
Unobserved Heterogeneity
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation
Experimental Data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
An, Yonghong
Hu, Yingyao
Liu, Pengfei
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2015.1815
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • An, Yonghong
  • Hu, Yingyao
  • Liu, Pengfei
  • Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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