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On “Group size and the free-rider hypothesis: Another hypothesis.” by Jody W. Lipford: Comment

✍ Scribed by Gordon Tullock

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
31 KB
Volume
87
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-5829

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This paper replies to the comment by Zaleski and Zech on my paper, in which I examined the relationship between free riding and group size. In this reply, I demonstrate that my original estimate is not misspecified because of a scaling problem and argue that the effects of any omitted variables are

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✍ Peter A. Zaleski; Charles E. Zech 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 213 KB

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, howe