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What do gifts buy? A model of philanthropy and tithing based on prestige and warm glow.
Harbaugh, William T. - EconWPA - 1996
Charities publicize the donations they receive, generally according to dollar categories rather than the exact amount. Donors in turn tend to give the minimum amount necessary to get into a category. These facts suggest that donors have a taste for having their donations made public. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125886
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076936
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561548
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The Two Faces of Knowledge Diffusion: the Chilean Case
Morone, Piergiuseppe - EconWPA - 2002
This paper analyses the dynamics of return to knowledge where knowledge is acquired through the combination of interactive and individual learning. We suggest that in light of this new definition of knowledge, choosing the optimal level of education is no longer an individual exercise of present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408325
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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence
Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - EconWPA - 2005
inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two … large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all …-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408336
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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence
Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - EconWPA - 2005
inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two … large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all …-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119296
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Subgame perfect manipulation of children by overlapping generations of agents with two-sided altruism and endogenous fertility
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996
In this paper we consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and two-sided altruism and show the limitations of applying commonly used open loop Nash equilibrium in characterizing equilibrium transfers from parents to children in the form of bequest, and transfers from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076531
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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004
This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the UK over the period 1991-2001. Using “residual” self-rated health to provide instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076542
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Wealth Trasfer Taxation: A Survey
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - EconWPA - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative: we are looking at the design of an optimal tax structure from the standpoint of both equity and efficiency. The gist of this survey is that the optimal design closely depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076621
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Social norms and human cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
The existence of social norms is one of the big unsolved problems in social cognitive science. Although no other concept is invoked more frequently in the social sciences, we still know little about how social norms are formed, the forces determining their content, and the cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076756