Similar Search Results

Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - In: Journal of public economics 220 (2023), pp. 1-10

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301778

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250733

When the great equalizer shuts down : schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - In: Journal of public economics 206 (2022), pp. 1-10

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197437

Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms

Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213782

Sitting Next to a Dropout - Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers

Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081431

On the desirability of taxing charitable contributions

Blumkin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2007

We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003410879

A case for taxing charitable donations

Blumkin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - In: Journal of public economics 91 (2007) 7/8, pp. 1555-1564

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003555161

Gerontocracy revisited : unilateral transfer to the young may benefit the middle aged

Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

It has been argued that in the absence of altruism, intergenerational transfers can survive only if the old are net recipients. I prove that this need not hold in an over-lapping generations model with a fixed factor. For example, the middle-aged owning land may gain by providing public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001597729

Gerontocracy revisited : unilateral transfer to the young may benefit the middle-aged

Poutvaara, Panu - In: Journal of public economics 88 (2004) 1/2, pp. 161-174

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001856184

Rent Taxation and its Intertemporal Welfare Effects in a Small Open Economy

Koethenbuerger, Marko; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

Previous literature concludes that replacing wage taxation by taxes on a fixed factor or its rents benefits future generations. However, the effects of such steady-state gains on the transition generations have been left open. In this paper, we show that taxation of rents may also increase...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316664