Data/hora: 10/06/2024 02:19:09

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | 'Pocket and Pot': Hypothetical Bias in a No-Free-Riding Public Contribution Game
Autores: | Gubanova,   Tatiana; Adamowicz,   Wiktor L.; McMillan,   Melville.
Data: | 2010-06-24
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Hypothetical bias; Public contribution game; Random dictatorship; Environmental Economics and Policy; C72; C91; D80.
Resumo: | Hypothetical bias arises when values which people say they place on a good or service differ systematically from the values people reveal for the same good or service through actual, binding economic transactions. Studies of hypothetical bias with respect to public goods often use charitable contributions or other relatively unique goods and these studies employ a variety of mechanisms to elicit the stated and revealed values. This study proposes the inclusion of a free-rider barring random dictatorship mechanism in the standard public contribution game to investigate the issue of bias when a public good involves immediate monetary returns to subjects. Steps are taken to make the game have the look and feel of a real world trade-off between private investment and public good provision. Data for the experiment were collected using a sample of students from the University of Alberta. A statistically significant negative hypothetical bias is found for the first hypothetical and the first real rounds of the game. The bias decays in subsequent round pairs, oscillating around zero.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/91403

Relação:

University of Alberta&gt;Department of Rural Economy&gt;Staff Paper Series

Staff Paper

09-02

Formato: | 74 p.