Demand for different types of public goods

Evidence from Nigeria

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9255583
AutoresAlisha A Kim (Department of Public Policy and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA., autor correspondente), Jonas B Bunte (0000-0001-8530-5556, Department of Public Policy and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.)
Ano2018
Volume76
Fascículo2
Páginas259-279
Data de publicação2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReview of Social Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00346764.2018.1424930
OpenAlexW2789923871
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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