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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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<strong>Public</strong> Goods with Endogenous Private Provision<br />

Interest in crowd-out began with Roberts (1984)<br />

Expansion of govt services for poor since Great Depression<br />

accompanied by comparable decline in charitable giving for the poor.<br />

Conclusion: government has grown tremendously without having any<br />

net impact on poverty or welfare<br />

Evidence mainly based on time series impressions.<br />

But theory underlying this claim very sensible, as subsequent work<br />

showed<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 7: <strong>Public</strong> Goods and Externalities 32 / 138

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