The Empirical Evidence for Citizen Information and a Local Market for Public Goods

Abstract This paper examines whether spillovers from local market human capital are important in explaining the distribution of productivity across Malaysia. We develop an empirical method for describing local human capital distributions based on the idea that spillovers are limited in scope by costs of interaction or economic distance between agents. We use estimates of the economic distance between agents to construct measures of local market human capital based on schooling rates of the population within a given radius. These measures are then used in estimating equations obtained from a simple local public goods model. Our regressions are estimated using spatial GMM, allowing for general spatial correlation across observations as a function of economic distance. We find positive wage and rent differentials associated with local human capital, evidence consistent with productive human capital spillovers. Our results for rent differentials obtain with two distinct human capital measures; however, those for wage differentials depend on the human capital measure used.

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Earmarking lottery proceeds for public goods: Empirical evidence from U.S. lotto expenditures

Economics Letters ◽

10.1016/j.econlet.2006.11.022 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 95 (3) ◽

pp. 451-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Craig E. Landry ◽

Michael K. Price

Keyword(s):

Public Goods ◽

Empirical Evidence

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Public Goods in Tourism Municipalities: Formal Analysis, Empirical Evidence and Implications for Sustainable Development

Tourism Economics ◽

10.5367/000000007781497719 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 361-378 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Ricard Rigall-I-Torrent ◽

Modest Fluvià

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Public Goods ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Formal Analysis ◽

Utility Functions ◽

Broad Sense ◽

Production Functions ◽

Private Firms ◽

Tourism Product

This paper formally analyses the effects that public goods (in a broad sense) have on tourists and private tourism firms. By approaching the tourism product as a bundle of characteristics, the paper shows how the supply of public goods in tourism municipalities positively affects both the tourists' utility functions and the private firms' production functions. Some implications of this fact regarding the sustainability of tourism are discussed. By means of hedonic methods, empirical evidence of location on prices for hotels on Catalonia's coast (Spain) is provided.

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Surrounded and threatened: how neighborhood composition reduces ethnic voting through intimidation

Political Science Research and Methods ◽

10.1017/psrm.2021.15 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Ted Enamorado ◽

Svetlana Kosterina

Keyword(s):

Public Goods ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Health Survey ◽

The Political ◽

Local Public Goods ◽

Alternative Mechanism ◽

Public Goods Provision ◽

Electoral Campaigns ◽

Geocoded Data ◽

Ethnic Geography

Abstract Ethnic voting is an important phenomenon in the political lives of numerous countries. In the present paper, we propose a theory explaining why ethnic voting is more prevalent in certain localities than in others and provide evidence for it. We argue that local ethnic geography affects ethnic voting by making voters of ethnicity that finds itself in the minority fear intimidation by their ethnic majority neighbors. We provide empirical evidence for our claim using the data from round 4 of the Afrobarometer survey in Ghana to measure the voters’ beliefs that they are likely to face intimidation during electoral campaigns. Using geocoded data from rounds three and four of the Afrobarometer, as well as data from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, we find no evidence for local public goods provision as an alternative mechanism.

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Public Goods: Re-examination, Related Concepts and Distinctions

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202125103062 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 251 ◽

pp. 03062

Author(s):

Jing Chen

Keyword(s):

Public Goods ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Work Experience ◽

Final Part ◽

Private Goods ◽

The Public ◽

Academic Literature ◽

The Government

The essay is aiming at answering‘How do economists distinguish between public goods and private goods? What problems does the existence of public goods pose for the market? How might the government intervene to address the problems of public goods? Illustrate with an example or examples drawn from your work experience or the academic literature’. This essay consists of three parts exploring different issues related to the resolution of public goods and externalities problems. The first section is to identify the public goods and private goods from an economic scope. Whereas the second part is to explore the possible obstacles the public goods would pose for the market. And the final part is to figure out how government would resolve the addressed problems by intervention and use valid empirical evidence to support the effectiveness of these intervention and actions.

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