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作者：Li, Sherry Xin; Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip J.; Brown, Tara Larson
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Saint Cloud State University; Monash University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：In the U.S., widespread complaints that taxes are too high exist alongside substantial voluntary donations to private charities whose missions parallel those of government agencies. We employ a real donation experiment to compare giving to government agencies and private charities with similar missions, for four different causes (Cancer Research, Disaster Relief, Education Enhancement, Parks and Wildlife) at three levels (national, state, and local). We find that individuals will give to gover...
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作者：Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; Kabalin, Ruslan
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Birmingham; Lancaster University
摘要：In the last thirty years. economists and other social scientists have investigated people's normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people's normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance. Using insights from moral philosophy and psychology we provide an analysis of the morality of free riding. We use experimental survey methods to investigate people's moral judgments empirically. We vary others' contributions, the framing ...
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作者：Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence
作者单位：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); University of Bologna; IZA Institute Labor Economics; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
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作者：Allcott, Hunt
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); New York University
摘要：This paper evaluates a series of programs run by a company called OPOWER to send Home Energy Report letters to residential utility customers comparing their electricity use to that of their neighbors. Using data from randomized natural field experiments at 600,000 treatment and control households across the United States, I estimate that the average program reduces energy consumption by 2.0%. The program provides additional evidence that non-price interventions can substantially and cost effec...
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作者：Andreoni, James; List, John
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of Chicago
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作者：Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha B.
作者单位：University of Bristol
摘要：This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable microdata on as many as 2.24 million children born of about 0.6 million mothers in 38 developing countries in the 31 year period, 1970-2000. Mother's health is indicated by her heig...
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作者：Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D.
作者单位：Laval University; Laval University; Laval University; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); Cornell University; Ithaca College
摘要：The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It is in the spirit of Sen (1970)'s partial orderings and follows the dominance approach to making inequality comparisons. By focusing on those below a multidimensional inequality frontier, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate inequality. Some existing approac...
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作者：Hoynes, Hilary W.; Luttmer, Erzo F. P.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; Dartmouth College
摘要：This paper estimates the total value that individuals derive from their state's tax-and-transfer program, and shows how this value varies by income. The paper decomposes this total value into two components: redistributive value, which is due to predictable changes in income (and family circumstances), and insurance value, which occurs when taxes and transfers compensate for unexpected income shocks. Our approach is a forward-looking one, where we examine income and transfers net of taxes over...
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作者：Janeba, Eckhard; Wilson, John Douglas
作者单位：Michigan State University; University of Mannheim
摘要：This paper models the optimal division of public goods provision between central and regional governments in an economy with interregional tax competition. Regional provision is inefficient because governments compete for scarce capital by lowering their capital taxes and public good levels to inefficiently low levels. On the other hand, central provision is inefficient because it is determined by the minimum winning coalition within a legislature. The optimal degree to which public good provi...
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作者：Bigio, Saki; Zilberman, Eduardo
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Most models of optimal income tax enforcement assume that income is either random or solely remunerates labor, neglecting that auditing strategies may depend on observable inputs. This paper outlines a model to optimally monitor self-employed entrepreneurs when, in addition to reported profits, the tax collection agency also observes the number of workers employed (or any other input variable) at each firm. We show that, by conditioning the monitoring strategy only on labor input, it is optima...
