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作者：Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; Sefton, Martin
作者单位：University of Nottingham
摘要：We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two-person setting. In one parameterization we find that overall provision is lower under sequential than simultaneous contributions, as predicted, but the distribution of contributions is not as extreme as predicted and first movers do not attain their predicted first-mover advantage. In another parameterization we again find that the distribution of contributions is not as predicted...
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作者：Davidoff, Thomas
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：Dense, expensive, litigious, and highly regulated, Manhattan typifies coastal US housing markets. Manhattan has lost share of US residential construction over the last 45 years. Some attribute this trend to tightening local regulation, but the decline of public housing construction and the decreasing national share of construction that is multifamily jointly explain away Manhattan's decline. Across US counties, negative correlations between supply growth and both coastal status and regulations...
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作者：Boyle, Melissa A.; Lahey, Joanna N.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; College of the Holy Cross
摘要：This paper exploits a major mid-1990s expansion in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to provide evidence on the labor market effects of expanding health insurance availability. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to compare the labor market behavior of older veterans and non-veterans before and after the VA health benefits expansion to test the impact of public health insurance on labor supply. We find that olde...
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作者：Bierbrauer, Felix; Sahm, Marco
作者单位：Max Planck Society; Technical University of Munich
摘要：We study the interdependence of optimal tax and expenditure policies. An optimal policy requires that information on preferences is made available. We first study this problem from a general mechanism design perspective and show that efficiency is possible only if the individuals who decide on public good provision face an own incentive scheme that differs from the tax system. We then study democratic mechanisms with the property that tax payers vote over public goods. Under such a mechanism, ...
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作者：Brouillette, Dany; Lacroix, Guy
作者单位：Laval University
摘要：The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least 12 months. The second, the qualification condition, required that they find a full-time job within 12 months after establishing eligibility. In this paper we focus on a neglected and important feature of the program, n...
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作者：Tamura, Yuji
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：We analyze a model of the migrant smuggling market where smugglers differ in the capacity to exploit their clients' labor at the destination. We suggest that destination countries with limited resources may prefer to improve the apprehension of smugglers and their clients at the border rather than inland, although either one of these anti-smuggling measures would reduce migrant exploitation. The reason is twofold. First, even if the resulting improvement in border apprehension alone cannot eli...
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作者：Couprie, Helene; Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain
作者单位：CY Cergy Paris Universite; University of Verona; Aix-Marseille Universite
摘要：The structure of intra-household allocation is crucial to know whether a transfer from a rich household to a poor one translates into a transfer from a rich individual to a poor one. If rich households are more unequal than poor ones, then a progressive transfer among households reduces intra-household inequality, hence inequality among individuals. More specifically, two conditions have to be satisfied for extending Generalized Lorenz judgments from household level to individual one. The frac...
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作者：Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Hori, Masahiro
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：In March 1999, 31 million shopping coupons worth 20,000 yen each were distributed to Japanese families with children and to the elderly. The coupons expired after six months and could only be used within the recipient's local community. We use variation in the number of children across families and in the number of recipients across prefectures to measure the effect of the coupons on spending. We find that coupons had a positive effect on spending on semi-durables, but no effect on spending on...
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作者：Iyengar, Sheena S.; Kamenica, Emir
作者单位：University of Chicago; Columbia University
摘要：In settings such as investing for retirement or choosing a drug plan, individuals typically face a large number of options. In this paper, we analyze how the size of the choice set influences which alternative is selected. We present both laboratory experiments and field data that suggest larger choice sets induce a stronger preference for simple, easy-to-understand options. The first experiment demonstrates that, in seeming violation of the weak axiom of revealed preference, subjects are more...
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作者：Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics
摘要：We study the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on performance, when individuals are rewarded according to their absolute performance. A natural experiment that took place in a high school offers an unusual opportunity to test this effect in a real-effort setting. For one year only, students received information that allowed them to know whether they were performing above (below) the class average as well as the distance from this average. We exploit a rich panel dat...
