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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Kingma 1989<br />

Studies individual contributions to public radio stations<br />

Cross-sectional survey of individuals who listened to public radio.<br />

3,500 individuals and 63 different radio stations.<br />

Research Design: OLS regression of individual contributions on<br />

government support<br />

D i = individual contribution<br />

G i = government support<br />

D i = β 0<br />

+ β 1<br />

G i + X i γ + ɛ i<br />

X i = set of controls: individual income, individual education, age,<br />

price (tax bracket).<br />

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