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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - CESifo - 2010

elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …

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Measuring the Consumption Value of Higher Education

Alstadsæter, Annette - CESifo - 2009

This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...

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The Consumption Value of Higher Education

Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - CESifo - 2009

The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...

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Public-Good Valuation and Intrafamily Allocation

Strand, Jon - CESifo - 2004

I derive values of marginal changes in a public good for two-person households, measured alternatively by household member i’s willingness to pay (WTP) for the good on behalf of the household, WTPi(H), or by the sum of individual WTP values across family members, WTP(C). Households are assumed...

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The Dead-anyway Effect Revis(it)ed

Breyer, Friedrich; Felder, Stefan - CESifo - 2002

In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called “dead-anyway” effect discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality risk increases with the initial level of risk....

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Islamic banking

Iqbal, Zubair - 1987

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Pakistan : tenth review under the extended arrangement and request for modification of performance criteria-press release; staff report; and statement by the Executive Director for...

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2016

This paper discusses economic performance status and policy developments of Pakistan. Amid setbacks to structural …

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Pakistan : staff report for the 2015 Article IV consultation, ninth review under the extended arrangement, request for waivers of nonobservance of performance criteria, and request...

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2016

This 2015 Article IV Consultation highlights that starting from a difficult position in 2013, Pakistan has made …-fiscal liabilities in the energy sector in 2013. In the medium term, growth is expected to reach about 5.5 percent, and inflation is … expected to gradually rebound to the State Bank of Pakistan's target of mid-single digits …

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Pakistan : selected issues paper

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2016

This Selected Issues paper reviews Pakistan's tax regime, evaluates the level and composition of tax revenues, and … estimates tax buoyancy and efficiency. Despite recent progress under the program, Pakistan's tax revenue remains very low …

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Pakistan : eighth review under the extended arrangement and request for waivers of nonobservance of performance criteria-press release; staff report; and statement by the Executive...

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2015

This paper discusses Pakistan's Eighth Review Under the Extended Arrangement and Request for Waivers of Nonobservance …

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