The trade-off between welfare and equality in a public good experiment

DOI10.1007/S00355-015-0893-4MaRDI QIDQ892873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Agathe Rouaix, Charles Figuières, Marc Willinger

Publication date 12 November 2015

Published in Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90) Public goods (91B18)

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• A note on welfare-improving ignorance about quality
• Adding noise to the institution: an experimental welfare investigation of the contribution-based grouping mechanism
• The power of requests in a redistribution game: an experimental study

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