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Health Care, Technological Change, and Altruistic Consumption Externalities
Philipson, Tomas - 2006
altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies such as Medicaid in the US. We stress that standard remedies to the two …
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Progressive Estate Taxation
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2006
For an economy with altruistic parents facing productivity shocks, the optimal estate taxation is progressive: fortunate parents should face lower net returns on their inheritances. This progressivity reflects optimal mean reversion in consumption, which ensures that a long-run steady state...
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Making Bequests Without Spoiling Children : Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility That Altruistic Bequests are not Equaliz
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1988
This paper examines the bequest\gift behavior of altruistic parents who do not know their children's abilities and cannot observe their children's work effort. Parents are likely to respond to this information problem by making larger bequests to higher earning children and by using their...
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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...
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Conspicuous Consumption and Race
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2007
Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their expenditure bundles to visible goods (clothing, jewelry, and cars) than do comparable Whites. We demonstrate that these differences exist among virtually all sub-populations, that...
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Self-Signaling and Prosocial Behavior : a Cause Marketing Mobile Field Experiment
Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2015
We empirically test an information economics based theory of social preferences in which ego utility and self … a large price discount for the good. The combined evidence supports the self-signaling theory whereby price discounts … crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …
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Philanthropy and public policy
Dickinson, Frank G. (contributor) - 1962
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Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment
Fong, Christina M. - 2009
firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate the perceived race and worthiness of the charity recipients by showing …
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Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark - 2014
The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not … recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism … varies with the level of giving-by-others, and it cannot identify the strength of warm glow and altruism preferences. These …
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Testing Motives for Charitable Giving : A Revealed-Preference Methodology with Experimental Evidence
Deb, Rahul - 2012
donations yield greater explanatory power than the standard model of impure altruism …
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