Crowdfunding Conservation (and Other Public Goods)

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular means to fund the provision of public goods and especially nature conservation projects. We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment by setting up web-based user interface, very similar actual crowdfunding platforms, test whether coordination mechanisms, like seed money decoy projects, can increase effectiveness campaigns if multiple projects are eligible for funding. find some our treatments affect via early contributions, but not always in intuitive way. Our results confirmed follow-up with