We design a lab-in-the-field experiment involving naturally occurring groups operating in three South-African townships. We introduce an incentives-based mechanism named “participatory incentives” consisting of monetary incentives that are awarded conditional on the group reaching a threshold of minimum level of joint contribution to a common project or good. We show that participatory incentives significantly raise average contribution levels (from 29 to 62% of the endowment) and are even more effective in the presence of highly deprived people. We complement the reduced form estimations of the experimental data with a structural model that sheds light on the role of subjects’ beliefs and responsiveness to a social norm of high cooperation.
Participatory incentives / F. Bripi, D. Grieco. - In: EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS. - ISSN 1573-6938. - (2023). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1007/s10683-023-09798-7]
Participatory incentives
D. Grieco
2023
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We design a lab-in-the-field experiment involving naturally occurring groups operating in three South-African townships. We introduce an incentives-based mechanism named “participatory incentives” consisting of monetary incentives that are awarded conditional on the group reaching a threshold of minimum level of joint contribution to a common project or good. We show that participatory incentives significantly raise average contribution levels (from 29 to 62% of the endowment) and are even more effective in the presence of highly deprived people. We complement the reduced form estimations of the experimental data with a structural model that sheds light on the role of subjects’ beliefs and responsiveness to a social norm of high cooperation.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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