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作者：Lyytikainen, Teemu
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper uses a Finnish policy intervention to study tax competition among local governments. Changes in the statutory lower limits to the property tax rates are used as a source of exogenous variation to estimate the responses of municipalities to tax rates in their neighboring municipalities. I do not find evidence of interdependence in property tax rates among Finnish municipalities. The results are in contrast to the earlier empirical literature, using data from other countries, that has...
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作者：Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; Wolter, Stefan C.
作者单位：IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; University of Bern; University of Bern
摘要：lifelong learning is often promoted in aging societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of the voucher program on earnings, employment, and subsequent education 1 year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: low-educated individuals are most likely to profit from adult educa...
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作者：Brunner, Eric J.; Cho, Sung-Woo; Reback, Randall
作者单位：Columbia University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Columbia University Teachers College; Columbia University
摘要：In theoretical models of residential sorting, a household's location decision is closely linked to its demand for local public services, such as schooling. Since school choice programs weaken the link between residential location and schooling options, they have the potential to affect both property values and residential location choices. Results derived from computable general equilibrium models suggest these effects could be large, but there is limited empirical evidence concerning whether ...
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作者：Thoeni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengstrom, Erik
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; University of Lausanne; University of Vienna; Lund University
摘要：Research on social capital routinely relies on survey measures of trust which can be collected in large and heterogeneous samples at low cost. We validate such survey measures in an incentivized public good experiment and show that they are importantly related to cooperation behavior in a large and heterogeneous sample. We provide evidence on the microfoundation of this relation by use of an experimental design that enables us to disentangle preferences for cooperation from beliefs about other...
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作者：Gronberg, Timothy J.; Luccasen, R. Andrew, III; Turocy, Theodore L.; Van Huyck, John B.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University of East Anglia
摘要：We report the results of a laboratory experiment on crowd-out in a voluntary contribution mechanism public good game. In our setting, a standard argument states that a tax should not be effective in raising contributions, because agents respond by reducing voluntary contributions by the amount of the tax. Our experimental design focuses in on this intuition by abstracting away from several potential confounds. We use a specification for the payoff function in which there is a dominant strategy...
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作者：Laitner, John; Silverman, Dan
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This paper proposes and analyzes a Social Security reform in which individuals no longer face the OASI payroll tax after, say, age 54 or a career of 34 years, and their subsequent earnings have no bearing on their benefits. We first estimate parameters of a life-cycle model. Our specification includes non-separable preferences and possible disability. It predicts a consumption-expenditure change at retirement. We use the magnitude of the expenditure change, together with households' retirement...
