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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Villeval, Marie Claire; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762105
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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politicoeconomic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703002
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Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757775
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822679
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Increasing Shadow Economies all over the World - Fiction or Reality?
Ernste, Dominik; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
negative impact on official GDP growth, however, a positive impact of corruption on the size of the shadow economy can be found …, i.e. the bigger the corruption, the larger is the shadow economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763753
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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762250
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Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885183
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Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the dynamics of the private provision of a public good that requires both capacity buildup and ongoing operating costs. We show that setting a time limit for the collection of contributions dedicated to capacity buildup minimizes the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959541
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Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies. Each agent's income at the end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously allowing us to address new questions regarding their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959700
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959829