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

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - CESifo - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are …

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Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland

Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2004

This study investigates spatial segregation of the population in fiscally decentralized urban areas. The theoretical part proposes the progressivity of local income taxes as a new explanation for income segregation. The empirical part studies how income tax differentials across municipalities in...

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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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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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Reducing Tariffs according to WTO Accession Rules: The Case of Vietnam

Fosse, Henrik Barslund; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - CESifo - 2011

When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have … Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …

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Economic Challenges in the Anthropocene

Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013

countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …

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Stable and Sustainable Global Tax Coordination with Leviathan Governments

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2014

Itaya et al. (2014) study the conditions for sustainability and stability of capital tax coordination in a repeated …

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