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Altruism and charitable giving in a fully replicated economy Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Thomas Gaube () (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany)
In this paper, an economy is analyzed where one group of agents, the altruists, cares about the well-being of another group of agents, the recipients. It is asked how changes in the size of these groups affect the altruists’ charitable giving in the Nash equilibrium. I show that a pure group size effect, i.e., a proportional expansion of both subgroups can lead to less free riding and to a lower degree of underprovision relative to the efficient level of charitable giving.
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Keywords: altruism public goods group size charitable giving Find related papers by JEL classification: D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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