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作者：Bracht, Juergen; Figuieres, Charles; Ratto, Marisa
作者单位：INRAE; Institut Agro; Montpellier SupAgro; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite de Montpellier; University of Aberdeen
摘要：We compare the performance of two incentive mechanisms in public goods experiments. One mechanism, the Falkinger mechanism, rewards and penalizes agents for deviations from the average contributions to the public good (Falkinger mechanism). The other, the compensation mechanism, allows agents to subsidize the other agents' contributions (compensation mechanism). It is found that both mechanisms lead to an increase in the level of contributions to the public goods. However, the Falkinger mechan...
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作者：Baroni, David P.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This paper presents a theory of corporate social responsibility in the form of the private provision of public goods and private redistribution by a firm. These social expenditures are determined by a manager operating under a compensation contract chosen by shareholders in a capital market that prices social expenditures. The theory incorporates three explanations for compensation systems that encompass social performance. First, consumers may reward the firm for its social expenditures; seco...
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作者：Apinunmahakul, Amornrat; Devlin, Rose Anne
作者单位：University of Ottawa; National Institute of Development Administration - Thailand
摘要：A theoretical model is provided in which an individual's social network enhances the consumption benefits from the public good. We find conditions under which investments in network enhancing infrastructure would encourage individuals to donate time and money to charity. An empirical investigation of the link between networks and private philanthropy is undertaken using the Canadian National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating. We find strong evidence that networks promote donatio...
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作者：Mayer, Susan E.; Lopoo, Leonard M.
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Chicago
摘要：The standard model of intergenerational mobility suggests that holding constant endowments, investments in children's human capital increases their future income. If true, the source of the investment should not matter even though almost all research on intergenerational mobility considers only parental investment. Much government spending is intended to reduce the investment gap between rich and poor children. We assess the relationship between government spending and intergenerational econom...
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作者：Kumar, Anil
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Dallas
摘要：Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA 1986) has provided an invaluable source of variation in tax rates to study the effects of tax reforms on labor supply in the US. Most existing studies exploiting variation generated by TRA 1986 have used cross-sectional variation in tax rates or assumed a linear labor supply function or have not couched their analysis in a nonlinear budget set framework. This paper uses the drastic variation in the budget set induced by TRA 1986 as a source of identification and com...
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作者：Roine, Jesper; Waldenstrom, Daniel
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
摘要：This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the twentieth century. Most of the decrease takes place before the expansion of the welfare state and by 1950 Swedish top income shares were already lower than in other countries. The fall is ...
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作者：Nikiforakis, Nikos
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：A number of experimental studies have shown that the opportunity to punish anti-social behavior increases cooperation levels when agents face a social dilemma. Using a public good experiment, I show that in the presence of counter-punishment opportunities cooperators are less willing to punish free riders. As a result, cooperation breaks down and groups have lower earnings in comparison to a treatment without punishments where free riding is predominant. Approximately one quarter of all punish...
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作者：Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Northwestern University
摘要：This is an experimental study of negative reciprocity in the case of multiple reciprocators. We use a three-player power-to-take game where a proposer is matched with two responders. We compare a treatment in which responders are anonymous to each other (strangers) with one in which responders know each other from outside the lab (friends). We focus on the responders' decisions, beliefs, and emotions. Our main findings are (1) friends punish the proposer more than strangers, (2) friends are mo...
