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Title Framing and Minimum Levels in Public Good Provision
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2077/42419
Date 2016
Author(s) Martinsson, Peter; Haileselassie, Medhin; Persson, Emil
Abstract Using a laboratory experiment in the field, we examine how the choice architecture of framing a social dilemma ' give to or take from a public good ' interacts with a policy intervention that enforces a minimum contribution level to the public good. We find that cooperation is significantly higher in the give frame than in the take frame in our standard public goods experiment. When a minimum contribution level is introduced, contributions are significantly higher in the take frame since contributions are crowded out in the give frame but crowded in in the take frame. Our results therefore stress the importance of choosing the frame when making policy recommendations. - JEL: C91, H41
Subject(s) Choice architecture; Framing; Public goods; Minimum level; Experiment; Ethiopia
Language eng
Relation Working Papers in Economics; 656
Type of publication report
Format 24
Identifier 1403-2465
Repository Gothenberg - University of Gothenberg
Added to C-A: 2016-04-07;08:11:06