Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10479343 | Journal of Public Economics | 2005 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
In a public goods experiment with the opportunity to vote to expel members of a group, we found that contributions rose to nearly 100% of endowments with significantly higher efficiency compared with a no-expulsion baseline. Our findings support the intuition that the threat of expulsion or ostracism is a device that helps some groups to provide public goods.
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Authors
Matthias Cinyabuguma, Talbot Page, Louis Putterman,