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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions. What can we Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. Nevertheless, it is still an open question what people’s preferences are regarding this form of redistribution. This paper reviews experimental evidence on preferences regarding redistribution and asks what this evidence...

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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

claims, i.e. annuities and life insurance. This paper reexamines the “dead-anyway” effect and establishes two main results … but when insurance markets are perfect, this occurs for a different reason than given by Pratt and Zeckhauser. Secondly …

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What You Ask is What You Get: Willingness-to-Pay for a QALY in Germany

Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - CESifo - 2013

We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked in various scenarios for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a gain of one quality-adjusted life year. While one version of the survey exactly copied the setting (online survey) and...

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UK Natural Gas: Gas-Specific or Oil Driven Pricing?

Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2013

the time of the year. Most of the reversion back to oil occurs in spring and summer when demand for gas to heating and …

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Assessing the Efficiency of an Insurance Provider - A Measurement Error Approach

Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - CESifo - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …

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Is there a Role for an Active Fiscal Stabilization Policy?

Andersen, Torben - CESifo - 2005

policies. To the extent that activity can be affected by aggregate demand in the short run, there is a case for a fiscal …

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