Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision

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Authors

  • Carlo Gallier
  • Timo Goeschl
  • Martin Kesternich
  • Johannes Lohse
  • Christiane Reif
  • Daniel Römer
Many public goods can be provided at different spatial levels. Evidence from social
identity theory and in-group favoritism raises the possibility that where higher-level provision is more efficient, subjects’ narrow concern for local outcomes (parochialism) could harm efficiency. Building on the experimental paradigm of multi-level public good games and the ‘neighborhood attachment’ concept, we conduct an artefactual field experiment with 600 participants in a setting conducive to parochial behavior. In an inter-neighborhood intraregion design, subjects allocate an endowment between a personal account, a local, and a regional public good account. The between-subjects design varies across two dimensions: One informs subjects that the smaller local group consists of members from their own neighborhood (‘neighbors’). The other varies the relative productivity at the two public goods provision levels. We find evidence for parochialism, but contrary to our hypothesis, parochialism does not interfere with efficiency: The average subject responds to a change in relative productivities at the local and regional level in the same way, whether aware of their neighbors’ presence in the small group or not. The results even hold for subjects with above-median neighborhood attachment and subjects primed on neighborhood attachment.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationMannheim
PublisherZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research GmbH
Number of pages44
Publication statusPublished - 22.02.2017
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Artefactual field experiment, Multi-level public goods, Parochialism, Social identity
  • Economics

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