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作者：Crumpler, Heidi; Grossman, Philip J.
作者单位：Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Saint Cloud State University
摘要：This paper reports the results of an experimental test of the warm glow hypothesis. A participant is presented with the opportunity to contribute from her own endowment to a charity of choice. The experiment is designed so that a pure altruist has no incentive to donate. The amount the designated charity will receive is preset; any contribution by the participant crowds out dollar-for-dollar giving by the proctor. We find that participants, on average, donated 20% of their endowments and that ...
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作者：Bethencourt, Carlos; Galasso, Vincenzo
作者单位：Universidad de la Laguna
摘要：All OECD countries target a large majority of their welfare spending to the elderly, through public pensions and health care programs. Spending in both programs has largely increased in the past decades - often more than the share of elderly in the population. We suggest that these phenomena may be due to political complementarities between these two transfer programs. We show that these two programs may coexist, because public health care may increase the political constituency in favor of so...
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作者：Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin
作者单位：Uppsala University; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：In this paper we investigate whether local governments react on the welfare benefit levels in neighboring jurisdictions when setting their own benefit levels. We solve the simultaneity problem arising from the welfare game by utilizing a policy intervention; more specifically, we use a centrally geared exogenous placement of a highly welfare prone group (refugees) among Swedish municipalities as an instrument. The IV estimates indicate that there exists a race-to-the-bottom and that the effect...
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作者：Schultz, C.
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作者：Callander, Steven; Wilson, Catherine H.
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：In recent decades psychologists have shown that the standard model of individual choice is often violated. One regularly observed violation is that choices are influenced by the decision context. To incorporate these effects into politics, we introduce a theory of context-dependent voting and apply it to the puzzle of why candidates are so frequently ambiguous in their policy pronouncements. We show that context-dependent voters develop a taste for ambiguity, even when they evaluate distances ...
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作者：Micheletto, Luca
作者单位：University of Milan; Bocconi University
摘要：The literature on externalities and optimal redistributive taxation in the presence of asymmetric information has so far been confined to the case where externalities are of the atmospheric type. One of the main results from this literature has been that the so called additivity property discovered by Sandmo [Sandmo, A. 1975. Optimal taxation in the presence of externalities. Swedish journal of Economics 77, 86-98] holds true also in this more general context. This paper extends previous analy...
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作者：Clotfelter, Charles; Glennie, Elizabeth; Ladd, Helen; Vigdor, Jacob
作者单位：Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：For a three-year time period beginning in 2001, North Carolina awarded an annual bonus of $1800 to certified math, science and special education teachers working in public secondary schools with either high-poverty rates or low test scores. Using longitudinal data on teachers, we estimate hazard models that identify the impact of this differential pay by comparing turnover patterns before and after the program's implementation, across eligible and ineligible categories of teachers, and across ...
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作者：Bider, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：A large literature has been concerned with the impacts of recent welfare reforms on income, earnings, transfers, and labor-force attachment. While one strand of this literature relies on observational studies conducted with large survey-sample data sets, a second makes use of data generated by experimental evaluations of changes to means-tested programs. Much of the overall literature has focused on mean impacts. In this paper, we use random-assignment experimental data from Canada's Self-Suff...
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作者：Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu
作者单位：University of Helsinki; University of California System; University of California Irvine; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：We consider the effects of income redistribution when people can migrate from one country to another, and when land within each country is heterogeneous. Taxes related to income can then affect property values, and can induce migration, which further affects property values. We show that under these conditions a utilitarian government should never equalize after-tax incomes. If migration is impossible, it may even transfer income from the poor to the rich, reducing the rents earned by absentee...
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作者：Petrova, Maria
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Popular support of redistributive policies depends on information they have about the tax system and efficiency of public projects. Mass media provides a convenient means for manipulating public opinion, even when voters understand that the media can be biased. I develop a theory of media capture in which the rich can influence information published in a media outlet at a cost. The model shows that higher inequality is associated with lower media freedom; this effect is stronger in democratic ...
