Arbeitspapier
Motivate the crowd or crowd-them out? The impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good
Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their proenvironmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that this is a promising strategy. Financed by taxpayers' money, cities' contributions are considered as substitutes that crowd-out private contributions to the same public good. Inspired by research on providing information on reference group behavior, we challenge this argument and conduct a framed-field experiment to analyze the impact of reference group information on the voluntary provision of a green public good. We investigate whether information on previous contributions by fellow citizens or the city affect individual contributions. We do not find statistical evidence that city-level information crowds-out additional individual contributions. A reference to fellow citizens significantly increases the share of contributors as it attracts subjects that are not per-se pro-environmentally oriented.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 33-2022
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Public Goods
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
- Thema
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Voluntary provision of environmental public goods
Social Norms
Crowding-out
Willingness to pay
Framed-field experiment
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bartels, Lara
Kesternich, Martin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics
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Marburg
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bartels, Lara
- Kesternich, Martin
- Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics
Entstanden
- 2022
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