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作者：Bronchetti, Erin Todd
作者单位：Swarthmore College
摘要：The costs of public insurance expansions are ordinarily justified by the claim that increased eligibility causes gains in insurance coverage, which translate into improved health care and health. This paper studies dramatic changes in public health insurance eligibility for immigrant and native children from 1998 to 2009 and finds that children's nativity status is crucial to understanding the impacts of recent eligibility expansions. I document a significantly higher degree of take-up (and le...
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作者：Andreoni, James; Payne, Abigail; Smith, Sarah
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; McMaster University; University of Bristol
摘要：We use a novel identification strategy to shed light on the effect of grant funding. We focus on charities that applied to a UK lottery grant programme. Where charities score the same on formal criteria, it is likely that informal criteria orthogonal to quality are used to break the ties, allowing us plausibly to treat a grant as a random event. We find evidence that grants have a positive impact for smaller charities, increasing their longevity and even crowding in other income. (C) 2013 Else...
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作者：Bastani, Spencer; Selin, Hakan
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：Recent microeconometric studies of taxpayers' responsiveness to taxation have shown that intensive margin labor supply and earnings elasticities typically are modest and sometimes equal to zero. A common view is that long-run responses still might be large if micro-estimates are downward biased owing to optimization frictions. In this paper we estimate the taxable income elasticity at a very large kink point of the Swedish tax schedule using the bunching method. During the period of study the ...
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作者：Baskaran, Thushyanthan
作者单位：University of Gottingen
摘要：This paper exploits an exogenous reform of the local fiscal equalization scheme in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in 2003 to identify tax mimicking by municipalities in the neighboring state of Lower Saxony (NDS). The reform caused municipalities in NRW to increase their business and property tax rates. I study within the difference in difference (DD) and the spatial lag (SL) frameworks whether municipalities in NDS bordering NRW did react to the exogenous tax increases by NR...
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作者：Andersen, Asger Lau; Lassen, David Dreyer; Nielsen, Lasse Holboll Westh
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：We analyze how a key component of fiscal governance, the ability of governments to pass a budget on time, affects government bond yield spreads. Based on a sample of 36 US states from 1988 to 1997, and using an original data set on budget enact, lent dates, we estimate that a 30 day budget delay has a cumulative impact that is equivalent to a one-time increase in the yield spread of around 10 basis points. States with sufficient liquidity incur no costs from late budgets, while unified governm...
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作者：Fergusson, Leopoldo
作者单位：Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
摘要：This paper examines the role of mass media in countering special interest group influence. I use the concentration of campaign contributions from Political Action Committees to proxy for special interests' capture of US Senate candidates from 1980 to 2002, and compare the reaction of voters to increases in concentration in two different types of media markets: in-state media markets and out-of-state media markets. Unlike in-state media markets, out-of-state markets focus on neighboring states'...
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作者：Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Jack, B. Kelsey
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Tufts University
摘要：We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effect of extrinsic rewards, both financial and non-financial, on the performance of agents recruited by a public health organization to promote HIV prevention and sell condoms. In this setting: (i) non-financial rewards are effective at improving performance; (ii) the effect of both types of rewards is stronger for pro-socially motivated agents; and (iii) both types of rewards are effective when their relative value is high. The findings illustrat...
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作者：Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the volunteering puzzle where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni, 1989) that permits warm glow to vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient allocation...
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作者：Yildirim, Huseyin
作者单位：Duke University
摘要：We provide a full equilibrium characterization of warm-glow giving a la Andreoni (1989, 1990) by extending the Andreoni-McGuire (1993) algorithm. We then generalize and offer an intuitive meaning to the large-economy crowding-out results by Ribar and Wilhelm (2002). The algorithm indexes individuals according to their free-riding levels of the public good. This level is finite for an individual whose donation is always dictated by some altruism or concern for charity. We show that if all indiv...
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作者：Silverman, Dan; Slemrod, Joel; Uler, Neslihan
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Authority, and the behavioral response to authority, is central to many important questions in public economics, but has received insufficient attention from economists. In particular, research has not differentiated between legitimate power and the presumption of expert knowledge, what we call authority to and authority in. In this paper we report on the results of a series of lab experiments designed to distinguish the effects of the two sources of authority on contributions to a public proj...
