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Voluntary Participation and Spite in Public Good Provision Experiments: an International Comparison

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Cason, T.N.
Saijo, T.
Yamato, T.

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This paper studies public good provision in the laboratory using voluntary contribution mechanism, in a cross-cultural experiment conducted in the United States and Japan.

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Paper provided by Osaka - Institute of Social and Economic Research in its series Papers with number 491.

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Date of creation: 2000
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Keywords: EXPERIMENTS ; SOCIAL CHOICE ; PUBLIC GOODS;

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C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances

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  8. David K. Levine, 1998. "Modeling Altruism and Spitefulness in Experiment," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 1(3), pages 593-622, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  9. Prasnikar, Vesna & Roth, Alvin E, 1992. "Considerations of Fairness and Strategy: Experimental Data from Sequential Games," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 107(3), pages 865-88, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  7. Arthur J.H.C. Schram, 2002. "Experimental Public Choice," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 02-106/1, Tinbergen Institute. [Downloadable!]
  8. Tatsuyoshi Saijo & Junyi Shen & Xiangdong Qin & Kenju Akai, 2007. "The Spite Dilemma Revisited: Comparison between Chinese and Japanese," OSIPP Discussion Paper 07E004, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University. [Downloadable!]
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