Proceedings of the 2020 2nd International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2020)

Impact of Perceived Income Inequality on Private Provision of Public Goods

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Zhang Zhengxin
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Zhang Zhengxin
Available Online 30 November 2020.
DOI
10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.017How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Public goods game, heterogeneity, perceived income inequality, experiment
Abstract

Experimental literature on public goods games has suggested that perceived income inequality may lead to an unpredicted impact on group contribution and individual behaviors. A standard linear public goods experiment is conducted to investigate the impact of perceived income inequality on the provision of public goods. Substantial inequality was introduced both in the endowment level. Two aspects of perceived income inequality were investigated: information about substantial inequality and the origin of income and inequality. This research discovered that contribution level was significantly higher when information about inequality was only privately known, the origin of income and inequality has no salient impact on group contribution, people with different endowments roughly contribute the same portion to public account.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2020 2nd International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2020)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
30 November 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-283-0
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.017How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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