Toilet cleaning and department chairing: Volunteering a public service

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bilodeau, M; Slivinski, A
• 署名单位: Western University (University of Western Ontario)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(94)01494-9
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 299-308
• 关键词: Public goods; Volunteering

摘要

Who will do a job that nobody wants but that someone has to do? The search for a volunteer is modelled as a war of attrition in which everyone is tempted to just wait for someone else to do it. We show that the volunteer will be, ceteris paribus, the individual for whom the benefit/cost ratio of performing the public service is largest, the one most impatient to consume it, or the one who stands to benefit from it the longest.