Demand for different types of public goods

Evidence from Nigeria

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9255583
AutoresAlisha A Kim (Department of Public Policy and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA., autor de correspondencia), Jonas B Bunte (0000-0001-8530-5556, Department of Public Policy and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.)
Año2018
Volumen76
Número2
Páginas259-279
Fecha de publicación2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReview of Social Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00346764.2018.1424930
OpenAlexW2789923871
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas29

Preferences of Nigerian households vary across different types of public goods. For example, some prefer roads while others favor education even after controlling for the existing supply of these goods. What explains this variation? We argue that the perceived distributional consequences of specific public goods differ conditional on the personal characteristics of households. In particular, households demand the type of public good that (a) increases the utility of assets they already own and (b) resonates with their past experiences involving the lack of particular public goods. We test our argument with data on 123,000 Nigerian households. We find strong evidence for our argument across six types of public goods

Argument (complex analysis) · Business · Economics · Microeconomics · Public economics · Public good · Test (biology) · Variation (astronomy) · Economic Policies and Impacts · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics