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Cultural Education and the Voluntary Provision of Cultural Goods: An Experimental Study

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Massimo Finocchiaro Castro (Department of Economics, Royal Holloway College, University of London & DEMQ, University of Catania)

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We study the effect that the possibility of investing in cultural education has on the voluntary contributions to a cultural good. This is done in a two-stage public-good experiment. We also provide treatments with different context in order to control for a possible framing effect. Our results show the absence of an effect of cultural education on the contributions to the cultural good and a slight increase in the allocations of subjectsÂendowments to the cultural good when the cultural context is implemented in the laboratory.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Experimental with number 0404003.

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Date of creation: 19 Apr 2004
Date of revision: 27 Oct 2004
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Keywords: cultural education; cultural good; framing; experiments; voluntary provision;

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A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General

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  1. Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, 2005. "Behaviour in a Two-Stage Two Public Goods Experiment," Experimental 0504002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  2. Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, 2005. "Behaviour in a Two-Stage Public Goods Experiment," Royal Holloway, University of London: Discussion Papers in Economics 05/05, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, revised May 2005. [Downloadable!]
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