Impact of Perceived Income Inequality on Private Provision of Public Goods

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10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.017How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Public goods game, heterogeneity, perceived income inequality, experiment

Abstract

Experimental literature on public goods games has suggested that perceived income inequality may lead to an unpredicted impact on group contribution and individual behaviors. A standard linear public goods experiment is conducted to investigate the impact of perceived income inequality on the provision of public goods. Substantial inequality was introduced both in the endowment level. Two aspects of perceived income inequality were investigated: information about substantial inequality and the origin of income and inequality. This research discovered that contribution level was significantly higher when information about inequality was only privately known, the origin of income and inequality has no salient impact on group contribution, people with different endowments roughly contribute the same portion to public account.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhang Zhengxin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/30
TI  - Impact of Perceived Income Inequality on Private Provision of Public Goods
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 2nd International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 84
EP  - 91
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.017
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.017
ID  - Zhengxin2020
ER  -