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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...

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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...

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The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data

Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption is either private or public. We then show that (i) household demands have to satisfy testable constraints and (ii) some elements of the decision process can be retrieved from...

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Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which requires reasonably accurate public information...

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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Experimental studies of social dilemmas have shown that while the existence of a sanctioning institution improves cooperation within groups, it also has a detrimental impact on group earnings in the short run. Could the introduction of pre-play threats to punish have enough of a beneficial...

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Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal

Kumar Das, Pranab; Kar, Saibal; Kayal, Madhumanti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such as the caste and religious divides in India. In several districts of West Bengal in India...

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European Asylum Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA), took planning control away from local councils in selected areas in … order to increase the speed and scale of development in those areas, in the process increasing land values. Using micro … inside and outside the ULDA areas, finding that 'connected' landowners owned 75% of land inside the rezoned areas, and only …

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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

farming back from the communal system, endowed rural households not only with land use rights, but also with de facto labor …

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