Matching Contributions and the Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good: Experimental Evidence
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Download full text from publisher
Other versions of this item:
- Baker II, Ronald J. & Walker, James M. & Williams, Arlington W., 2009. "Matching contributions and the voluntary provision of a pure public good: Experimental evidence," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 70(1-2), pages 122-134, May.
References listed on IDEAS
- Jan Potters & Martin Sefton & Lise Vesterlund, 2007.
"Leading-by-example and signaling in voluntary contribution games: an experimental study,"
Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 33(1), pages 169-182, October.
- Potters, J.J.M. & Sefton, M. & Vesterlund, L., 2007. "Leading-by-example and signaling in voluntary contribution games : An experimental study," Other publications TiSEM 1ea4e6c8-3071-46d8-a29f-0, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
- Craig E. Landry & Andreas Lange & John A. List & Michael K. Price & Nicholas G. Rupp, 2006.
"Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 121(2), pages 747-782.
- Craig Landry & Andreas Lange & John A. List & Michael K. Price & Nicholas G. Rupp, 2005. "Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment," NBER Working Papers 11611, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Craig Landry & Andreas Lange & John List & Michael Price & Nicholas Rupp, 2006. "Toward an understanding of the economics of charity: Evidence from a field experiment," Natural Field Experiments 00292, The Field Experiments Website.
- John A. List & David Lucking-Reiley, 2002.
"The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign,"
Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 110(1), pages 215-233, February.
- John A. List & David Lucking-Reiley, 2000. "The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 0008, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics.
- John List & David Lucking-Reiley, 2002. "The effects of seed money and refunds on charitable giving: Experimental evidence from a university capital campaign," Natural Field Experiments 00301, The Field Experiments Website.
- Glenn W. Harrison & John A. List, 2004.
"Field Experiments,"
Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 42(4), pages 1009-1055, December.
- Glenn Harrison & John List, 2004. "Field experiments," Artefactual Field Experiments 00058, The Field Experiments Website.
- John List & David Reiley, 2008. "Field experiments," Artefactual Field Experiments 00091, The Field Experiments Website.
- Dean Karlan & John A. List, 2007.
"Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 97(5), pages 1774-1793, December.
- Dean Karlan & John List, 2006. "Does price matter in charitable giving? Evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment," Natural Field Experiments 00279, The Field Experiments Website.
- Dean Karlan & John A. List, 2006. "Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence From a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment," NBER Working Papers 12338, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Dean Karlan & John A. List, 2006. "Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment," Working Papers 1, The Field Experiments Website.
- Karlan, Dean & List, John, 2006. "Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment," Working Papers 13, Yale University, Department of Economics.
- James Andreoni, 2006.
"Leadership Giving in Charitable Fund‐Raising,"
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 8(1), pages 1-22, January.
- Andreoni,J., 2002. "Leadership giving in charitable fund-raising," Working papers 13, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
- Davis, Douglas D., 2006.
"Rebate subsidies, matching subsidies and isolation effects,"
Judgment and Decision Making, Cambridge University Press, vol. 1(1), pages 13-22, July.
- Douglas D. Davis, 2006. "Rebate Subsidies, Matching Subsidies and Isolation Effects," Working Papers 0604, VCU School of Business, Department of Economics.
- repec:cup:judgdm:v:1:y:2006:i::p:13-22 is not listed on IDEAS
- Cameron,A. Colin & Trivedi,Pravin K., 2005. "Microeconometrics," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521848053, November.
- List, John A. & Rondeau, Daniel, 2003.
"The impact of challenge gifts on charitable giving: an experimental investigation,"
Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 79(2), pages 153-159, May.
- John List & Daniel Rondeau, 2003. "The impact of challenge gifts on charitable giving: an experimental investigation," Artefactual Field Experiments 00507, The Field Experiments Website.
- Isaac, R. Mark & Walker, James M. & Williams, Arlington W., 1994. "Group size and the voluntary provision of public goods : Experimental evidence utilizing large groups," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(1), pages 1-36, May.
- Marks, Melanie & Croson, Rachel, 1998. "Alternative rebate rules in the provision of a threshold public good: An experimental investigation," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(2), pages 195-220, February.
- Eckel, Catherine C. & Grossman, Philip J., 2003. "Rebate versus matching: does how we subsidize charitable contributions matter?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(3-4), pages 681-701, March.
- Potters, J.J.M. & Sefton, M. & Vesterlund, L., 2001.
"Why Announce Leadership Contributions? An Experimental Study of the Signaling and Reciprocity Hypotheses,"
Other publications TiSEM
bf38dd2e-5f10-46ae-bb21-7, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
- Potters, J.J.M. & Sefton, M. & Vesterlund, L., 2001. "Why Announce Leadership Contributions? An Experimental Study of the Signaling and Reciprocity Hypotheses," Discussion Paper 2001-100, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
- repec:feb:artefa:0090 is not listed on IDEAS
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Blanco, Esther & Struwe, Natalie & Walker, James M., 2021.
"Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments,"
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 188(C), pages 1221-1247.
- Esther Blanco & Natalie Struwe & James M. Walker, 2020. "Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments," Working Papers 2020-22, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
- Christiane Reif & Dirk Rübbelke & Andreas Löschel, 2017. "Improving Voluntary Public Good Provision Through a Non-governmental, Endogenous Matching Mechanism: Experimental Evidence," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 67(3), pages 559-589, July.
- Anauati, María Victoria & Feld, Brian & Galiani, Sebastian & Torrens, Gustavo, 2016.
"Collective action: Experimental evidence,"
Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 36-55.
- María Victoria Anauati & Brian Feld & Sebastian Galiani & Gustavo Torrens, 2015. "Collective Action: Experimental Evidence," NBER Working Papers 20936, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Indranil Goswami & Indranil Goswami, 2020. "No Substitute for the Real Thing: The Importance of In-Context Field Experiments in Fundraising," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 39(6), pages 1052-1070, November.
- Ronald J. Baker II & James M. Walker & Ioana Schiopu, 2010. "External Matching Funds and the Provision of Public Goods: An Experimental Study," Caepr Working Papers 2010-003, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Economics Department, Indiana University Bloomington.
- Baker, Ronald J. & Walker, James M. & Williams, Arlington W., 2011. "An exploration of the robustness of alternative laboratory methodologies: Matching funds and the provision of public goods," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 40(6), pages 763-774.
- Ding, Shuze & Lugovskyy, Volodymyr & Puzzello, Daniela & Tucker, Steven & Williams, Arlington, 2018.
"Cash versus extra-credit incentives in experimental asset markets,"
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 19-27.
- Steven Tucker & Shuze Ding & Volodymyr Lugovskyy & Daniela Puzzello & Arlington Williams, 2017. "Cash versus Extra-Credit Incentives in Experimental Asset Markets," Working Papers in Economics 17/21, University of Waikato.
- Reif, Christiane & Rübbelke, Dirk & Löschel, Andreas, 2014.
"Improving voluntary public good provision by a non-governmental, endogenous matching mechanism: Experimental evidence,"
CAWM Discussion Papers
73, University of Münster, Münster Center for Economic Policy (MEP).
- Reif, Christiane & Rübbelke, Dirk & Löschel, Andreas, 2014. "Improving voluntary public good provision by a non-governmental, endogenous matching mechanism: Experimental evidence," ZEW Discussion Papers 14-075, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
- Alexander Smith, 2013. "Estimating the causal effect of beliefs on contributions in repeated public good games," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 16(3), pages 414-425, September.
- Christian A. Vossler, 2013.
"Analyzing repeated-game economics experiments: robust standard errors for panel data with serial correlation,"
Chapters, in: John A. List & Michael K. Price (ed.), Handbook on Experimental Economics and the Environment, chapter 3, pages 89-112,
Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Vossler, Christian A., 2009. "Analyzing repeated-game economics experiments: robust standard errors for panel data with serial correlation," MPRA Paper 38862, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Gong, Ning & Grundy, Bruce D., 2014. "The design of charitable fund-raising schemes: Matching grants or seed money," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 147-165.
- Indranil Goswami & Oleg Urminsky, 2018. "No Substitute for the Real Thing: The Importance of In-Context Field Experiments In Fundraising," Natural Field Experiments 00660, The Field Experiments Website.
- Carlsson, Fredrik & Johansson-Stenman, Olof & Pham Khanh, Nam, 2011. "Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions," Working Papers in Economics 503, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
- Ronald J. Baker II & James M. Walker & Ioana Schiopu, 2010. "External Matching Funds and the Provision of Public Goods: An Experimental Study," CAEPR Working Papers 2010-003, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Karlan, Dean & List, John A., 2020.
"How can Bill and Melinda Gates increase other people's donations to fund public goods?,"
Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 191(C).
- Karlan, Dean & List, Jonathan A., 2012. "How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?," Working Papers 101, Yale University, Department of Economics.
- List, John & Karlan, Dean, 2012. "How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?," CEPR Discussion Papers 8922, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Dean Karlan & John List, 2016. "How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?," Natural Field Experiments 00411, The Field Experiments Website.
- Dean Karlan & John A. List, 2012. "How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?," NBER Working Papers 17954, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Daniel Rondeau & John List, 2008.
"Matching and challenge gifts to charity: evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments,"
Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 11(3), pages 253-267, September.
- John List & Daniel Rondeau, 2008. "Matching and challenge gifts to charity: Evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments," Natural Field Experiments 00330, The Field Experiments Website.
- Rondeau, Daniel & List, John A., 2008. "Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments," IZA Discussion Papers 3278, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Daniel Rondeau & John A. List, 2008. "Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments," NBER Working Papers 13728, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Krasteva, Silvana & Saboury, Piruz, 2021. "Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
- Huck, Steffen & Rasul, Imran, 2011.
"Matched fundraising: Evidence from a natural field experiment,"
Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(5), pages 351-362.
- Huck, Steffen & Rasul, Imran, 2011. "Matched fundraising: Evidence from a natural field experiment," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(5-6), pages 351-362, June.
- Huck, Steffen & Rasul, Imran, 2010. "Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment," CEPR Discussion Papers 8075, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Huck, Steffen & Rasul, Imran, 2010. "Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 5267, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- John A. List, 2011.
"The Market for Charitable Giving,"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 25(2), pages 157-180, Spring.
- John List, 2011. "The Market for Charitable Giving," Natural Field Experiments 00472, The Field Experiments Website.
- Catherine Eckel & Philip Grossman, 2008. "Subsidizing charitable contributions: a natural field experiment comparing matching and rebate subsidies," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 11(3), pages 234-252, September.
- de Oliveira, Angela C.M. & Croson, Rachel T.A. & Eckel, Catherine, 2011.
"The giving type: Identifying donors,"
Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(5-6), pages 428-435, June.
- de Oliveira, Angela C.M. & Croson, Rachel T.A. & Eckel, Catherine, 2011. "The giving type: Identifying donors," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(5), pages 428-435.
- Matthew Donazzan & Nisvan Erkal & Boon Han Koh, 2016. "Impact of Rebates and Refunds on Contributions to Threshold Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 83(1), pages 69-86, July.
- John List, 2008.
"Introduction to field experiments in economics with applications to the economics of charity,"
Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 11(3), pages 203-212, September.
- John List, 2008. "Introduction to field experiments in economics with applications to the economics of charity," Artefactual Field Experiments 00085, The Field Experiments Website.
- Saboury, Piruz & Krasteva, Silvana & Palma, Marco A., 2022. "The effect of seed money and matching gifts in fundraising: A lab experiment," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 194(C), pages 425-453.
- Dean Karlan & John A List, 2012.
"How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?,"
Working Papers
id:4880, eSocialSciences.
- Karlan, Dean & List, John, 2020. "How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?," CEPR Discussion Papers 15221, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Indranil Goswami & Indranil Goswami, 2020. "No Substitute for the Real Thing: The Importance of In-Context Field Experiments in Fundraising," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 39(6), pages 1052-1070, November.
- Dean Karlan and John A. List, 2012. "How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods? - Working Paper 292," Working Papers 292, Center for Global Development.
- Null, C., 2011. "Warm glow, information, and inefficient charitable giving," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(5), pages 455-465.
- Indranil Goswami & Oleg Urminsky, 2018. "No Substitute for the Real Thing: The Importance of In-Context Field Experiments In Fundraising," Natural Field Experiments 00660, The Field Experiments Website.
- Bartels, Lara & Kesternich, Martin, 2022.
"Motivate the crowd or crowd- them out? The impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good,"
ZEW Discussion Papers
22-040, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
- Lara Bartels & Martin Kesternich, 2022. "Motivate the crowd or crowd-them out? The impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good," MAGKS Papers on Economics 202233, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung).
- Catherine Eckel, 2005.
"Subsidizing Charitable Contributions: A Field Test Comparing Matching and Rebate Subsidies,"
Working Papers
2098, The Field Experiments Website.
- Catherine Eckel & Philip Grossman, 2005. "Subsidizing charitable contributions: A field test comparing matching and rebate subsidies," Framed Field Experiments 00145, The Field Experiments Website.
- Gallier, Carlo & Goeschl, Timo & Kesternich, Martin & Lohse, Johannes & Reif, Christiane & Römer, Daniel, 2023.
"Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers,"
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 216(C), pages 457-468.
- Gallier, Carlo & Goeschl, Timo & Kesternich, Martin & Lohse, Johannes & Reif, Christiane & Römer, Daniel, 2019. "Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers," ZEW Discussion Papers 19-039, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
- Carlo Gallier & Timo Goeschl & Martin Kesternich & Johannes Lohse & Christiane Reif & Daniel Roemer, 2019. "Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and splillovers," Discussion Papers 19-08, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham.
- John List, 2007. "Experimenting with Fish has some Advantages," Artefactual Field Experiments 00387, The Field Experiments Website.
- Adena, Maja & Huck, Steffen, 2022.
"Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations,"
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 200(C), pages 1-20.
- Adena, Maja & Huck, Steffen, 2019. "Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2019-306, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
- Adena, Maja & Huck, Steffen, 2022. "Personalized Fundraising: A Field Experiment on Threshold Matching of Donations," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 328, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
- Adena, Maja & Huck, Steffen, 2020. "Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2019-306r, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, revised 2020.
More about this item
Keywords
public goods; free riding; laboratory experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2006-09-23 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2006-09-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2006-09-23 (Public Economics)
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inu:caeprp:2006007. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/caeprus.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.