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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
Volume 175, Issue -, Pages 328-340Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.06.020
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- Catholic University of Lille
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In this work we examine a common social dilemma in experimental economics, the public goods game, to determine how voting impacts pro-social behavior. As noted in Markussen et al. (2014), a democratic dividend exists. Couching the public goods game in a phenomenon that is playing out in much of the world - drastic income inequality - we examine the decision of groups to share local public goods with groups that have, effectively, no endowment to contribute toward public nor private consumption. Our results show the perils of democracy in that subjects in the position to vote use their advantageous situation to reward the ingroups at the expense of the less endowed outgroup members. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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