An empirical test of neutrality and the crowding-out hypothesis |
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Authors: | Brunner Eric J. |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-9210, U.S.A.
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Abstract: | This paper tests Warr's neutrality hypothesis that the voluntary provision of a public good is independent of the distribution of income. Specifically, I test the null hypothesis of neutrality against the alternative that total contributions to a public good will be larger the less equally income is distributed. To test this hypothesis, a new data set is constructed by merging data on total voluntary contributions to individual public radio stations with 1990 Census data on the income distribution in each station's listening area. I find that voluntary contributions increase as income inequality rises. |
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