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Kimberley Scharf

Working paper

Private provision of public goods and information diffusion in social groups

There is evidence that social interactions matter for charitable giving. This paper describes a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals engage in voluntary provision of a pure collective good that is consumed...