This paper examines the effect of income and wealth heterogeneity in the voluntary
provision of a linear public good. We use models of inequality aversion and altruism to …

Group incentives can and have been used to address a range of environmental and
resource problems. These schemes base individual penalties and/or rewards on the …

An entrepreneur finances her project via crowdfunding. She chooses a funding mechanism
(fixed or flexible), a price, and a funding goal. Under fixed funding, money is refunded if the …

While energy-efficiency and conservation have been important tenets of energy policy for
decades, concerns about climate change have put these issues at the forefront of policy …

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to
examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used …

Individuals who are concerned for a nonprofit's mission benefit from activities that increase
the nonprofit's output. As these benefits are enjoyed by anyone with similar concerns …

Many of the main scientific challenges in the fields of development, environment, and
resource economics have a microeconomic foundation wherein behavioral elements play a …

As a bioinvasion spreads across a landscape from its point of introduction, damages rise
roughly with the square of the distance from the original invasion. It is thus generally …

Behavior in the local commons is usually embedded within a context of incentives,
regulations and social norms for the group of resource users. Standard environmental …

This paper considers how six alternative rebate rules affect voluntary contributions in a
threshold public-good experiment. The rules differ by (1) whether an individual can receive a …