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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13:165-175 (2003)
© 2003 Public Management Research Association

Public Goods and Posterity: An Empirical Test of Intergenerational Altruism

Arthur C. Brooks

Syracuse University

Public and nonprofit managers are frequently tasked with decisions about the amount and type of public goods to produce. In the process, they face claims about the costs and benefits of provision. One of the most difficult claims to evaluate is the assertion that citizens want to produce or preserve public goods for future generations. Are people truly concerned about the future when they donate funds, pay taxes, or vote in a particular way? This article proposes a statistical test of this proposition and illustrates its use through an example case involving charitable giving.


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