| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26445 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26445 |
| Crowding In with Impure Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks | |
| Matthew Kotchen; Katherine R.H. Wagner | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-11-11 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the literature takes as given the result that crowding out should be less with impure altruism compared with pure altruism, we show that, in general, it can be either more or less. Second, we propose a more general test based on the presence of crowding in, rather than the extent of crowding out. Third, we provide empirical evidence. Using a unique panel data set on volunteerism in U.S. National Parks, we estimate the causal effect of changes in public funding within parks on the amount of within-park volunteerism. The overall finding is that each additional dollar of public expenditure crowds in 27 cents worth of volunteerism on average. We show how the estimates of crowding in, along with heterogeneity based on park and volunteer hour types, are theoretically consistent with the mainstay model of impure altruism. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; National Fiscal Issues ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Renewable Resources |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26445 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584117 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Matthew Kotchen,Katherine R.H. Wagner. Crowding In with Impure Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks. 2019. |
| 条目包含的文件 | ||||||
| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w26445.pdf（513KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
