Titel:Motivate the Crowd or Crowd-them out? The Impact of Local Government spending on the Voluntary Provision of a Green Public Good
Autor:Bartels, Lara
Weitere Verfasser:Kesternich, Martin
Veröffentlicht:2022
URI:https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2024/0740
URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-es2024-07406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0740
ISSN: 1867-3678
DDC:330 Wirtschaft
Publikationsdatum:2024-01-19
Lizenz:https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0

Dokument

Schlagwörter:
Willingness to pay, Voluntary provision of environmental public goods, Framed-field experiment, Social Norms, Crowding-out

Summary:
Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their pro-environmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that this is a promising strategy. Financed by taxpayers’ money, cities’ contributions are considered as substitutes that crowd-out private contributions to the same public good. Inspired by research on providing information on reference group behavior, we challenge this argument and conduct a framed-field experiment to analyze the impact of reference group information on the voluntary provision of a green public good. We investigate whether information on previous contributions by fellow citizens or the city affect individual contributions. We do not find statistical evidence that city-level information crowds-out additional individual contributions. A reference to fellow citizens significantly increases the share of contributors as it attracts subjects that are not per-se pro-environmentally oriented.


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