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Group size and the free-rider hypothesis: A re-examination of old evidence from churches: Comment

✍ Scribed by Peter A. Zaleski; Charles E. Zech

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
213 KB
Volume
88
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-5829

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✦ Synopsis

This paper comments on a recent study by Lipford (1995) which rejects the hypothesis of free ridership. This paper contends that Lipford's analysis suffers from two serious misspecification errors. A re-examination of Lipford's results suggests that free ridership could occur. Other hypotheses, however, are also consistent with the new results.

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