Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146269 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/76
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The paper presents the results of a lab-in-the-field experiment in three South African townships located in the suburbs of Cape Town. The experimental design consists of a set of decisions on how the members of a naturally occurring group allocate an endowment to a private or to a public account. In our treatments, we first manipulate the degree of participation of group members in the choice of the public good, from involvement of the group leader only, to collective discussion and to private voting. Additionally, we explore the effectiveness of monetary incentives (collective versus individual) set in order to promote participation. The results show that leader guidance and participatory incentives significantly raise cooperation and hold after controlling for a wide set of individual and group characteristics.
Subjects: 
lab-in-the-field experiment
segregation
cooperation
leadership
participation
township
JEL: 
C93
D63
D71
H41
O12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-119-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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