We consider an overlapping generations model with a Durable Local Public Good (DLPG). We establish a Tiebout Theorem (equilibrium exists and is first best) as well as a Second Welfare Theorem in this dynamic DLPG economy. We define conditions under which local provision of durable public goods results in the full internalization of the intergenerational spillovers that durability entails. In co...

Procreation is the ultimate public goods problem. Each new child affects the welfare of many other people, and some (but not all) children produce uncompensated value that future people will enjoy. This essay addresses challenges that arise if we think of procreation and parenting as public goods. These include whether individual choices are likely to lead to a socially desirable outcome, and w...

We examine the strategy-proof provision of public goods when agents care not only about the level of provision of a public good, but also the number of consumers. We show that on such domains strategy-proof and eecient social choice functions must be rigid in that they must always assign a xed number of consumers, regardless of individual desires to participate. When congestion eeects dominate ...

Conventional analysis of public goods provision aggregates individual wiltitigne.ss to pay while treatitig income as exogenous, ignoring the fact that we generate income to allow us to purclia.se utility-generating goods. We explore the implicatiotis of endogenizing the lahorlleisure decision hy explicitly considering leisure detnami in a model of public goods provision. We consider benefit ana...

Why do individuals participate in charitable gambling activities? We conduct a laboratory investigation of a model that predicts risk-neutral expected utility maximizers will participate in lotteries when they recognize that lotteries are being used to finance public goods. As predicted by the model, we find that public goods provision is higher when financed by lottery proceeds than when finan...