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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

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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A case for taxing charitable donations

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

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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions

Blumkin, Tomer - 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...

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The Intergenerational Welfare State

Andersen, Torben M. - 2013

The welfare state is not merely a stand-in for missing markets; it can do a whole lot more. When generations overlap and the young must borrow to make educational investments, a dynamically-efficient welfare state, by taxing the middle-aged and offering a compensatory old-age pension, can...

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Resolving Intergenerational Conflict Over the Environment Under the Pareto Criterion

Andersen, Torben M. - 2016

We describe a “business as usual” (BAU) economy in which pollution is a by-product of productive activity by the current generation but “damages” production for future generations. Over time, conditions in the BAU economy become dire: it gets increasingly polluted, consumption falls and...

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The impact of an adult education voucher program : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 7/8, pp. 569-583

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