Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192282 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 300
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
It is sometimes claimed that individuals' contributions to public goods are not motivated by economic costs and benefits alone, but that people also have a moral or norm-based motivation. A number of studies indicate that such moral or norm-based motivation might be crowded out, or crowded in, by public policy. This paper discusses some models that can yield insight into the interplay between economic and moral or norm-based motivation for voluntary contributions to public goods, and compares their policy implications. We distinguish between four types of models: Altruism models, social norm models, models of commitment and the cognitive evaluation theory.
Subjects: 
Private provision
altruism
social norms
commitment.
JEL: 
D11
H41
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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