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Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods
Blumkin, Tomer; Ruffle, Bradley; Ganun, Yosef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor-income (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a...
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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
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Stability of Time Preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
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"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments
Erkal, Nisvan; Wu, Steven Y.; Roe, Brian E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We develop a model of strategic contractual incompleteness that identifies conditions under which principals might omit even costlessly verifiable terms. We then use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of the model. While it is well known that verifiability imperfections can...
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The Impact of Tax Knowledge and Budget Spending Influence on Tax Compliance
Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the impact of trust in authorities on tax compliance within a controlled laboratory setting. Embedded in two hypothetical tax systems with high and low power of authorities respectively, we gradually increase trust in authorities in form of tax knowledge about public expenditures...
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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...
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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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