Motives behind community participation: Evidence from natural and artefactual field experiments in Sri Lanka

Autor:	Yasuyuki Sawada, Masahiro Shoji, Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Lottery Dictator game Public economics media_common.quotation_subject Alternative hypothesis Economics Production (economics) Public good Investment (macroeconomics) Altruism Network formation media_common
Zdroj:	Pacific Economic Review. 25:577-600
ISSN:	1468-0106 1361-374X
DOI:	10.1111/1468-0106.12352
Popis:	We tested four alternative hypotheses concerning the motivations behind the participation by rural households in community work: public goods investment, production network formation, risk‐sharing network formation, and pure altruism. We used a unique dataset from an irrigation project in Sri Lanka under a natural experimental situation where a significant portion of irrigated land was allocated through a lottery mechanism. In addition, we elicited the level of altruism using the dictator game. By combining these data, we showed that community participation patterns fit the motive to form risk‐sharing networks better than the other major motives. Only a few studies have empirically investigated the process of risk‐sharing network formation, and our analysis fills the gap in the literature.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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