Indigenous Associations and Public Goods Provision: Experimental Evidence from Grinw in Mali
What role can social clubs play in the provision of public goods in the developing world? We investigate the role of grin, informal clubs, in public goods provision in two urban centers in Mali: Bamako and Mopti. We conduct an experiment using a step-level voluntary contribution mechanism to study the structural determinants of provision rates; as well as differences in provision rates between in-group and out-group environments. We also test the ecological validity of the experimental games via the marginal effects of reported contributions to public goods in local communities on game provision rates.
Jaimie Bleck
Jaimie Bleck is a political science professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Prior to this, she served as an associate professor of political science and the senior research advisor for the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity at the Kellogg Institute. She was a faculty fellow at the institute for 14 years...
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