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Government Investment and the European Stability and Growth Pact
Bassetto, Marco; Lepetyuk, Vadym - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We consider the effect of excluding government investment from the deficit subject to the limits of the European … that favor long-term investment (by allowing more borrowing) over other government spending that only carries short … modest distortions can be alleviated only if net government investment is excluded from the deficit computation; excluding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050229
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On the Relationship Between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States
Bassetto, Marco; McGranahan, Leslie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
of the empirical response of capital spending to mobility is at the upper end of what can be explained by the theory with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001143
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Religiosity and State Welfare
Dills, Angela; Hernández-Julián, Rey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The Catholic sex abuse scandals reduced both membership and religiosity in the Catholic Church. Because government spending on welfare may substitute for the religious provision of social services, we consider whether this plausibly exogenous decline in religiosity affected several measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969278
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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Jedwab, Remi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969355
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What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics
Chetty, Raj; Saez, Emmanuel; Sándor, László - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We evaluate policies to increase prosocial behavior using a field experiment with 1,500 referees at the Journal of Public Economics. We randomly assign referees to four groups: a control group with a six week deadline to submit a referee report, a group with a four week deadline, a cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969357
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Fair Weather Avoidance: Unpacking Costs and Benefits in Replication of 'Avoiding the Ask'
Andreoni, James; Trachtman, Hannah; Steinkruger, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
If being asked to give to charity stimulates an emotional response, like empathy, that makes giving difficult to resist, a natural self-control mechanism might be to avoid being asked in the first place. We replicate a result from a field experiment that points to the role of empathy in giving....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887104
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Donative Behavior at the End of Life
Meer, Jonathan; Rosen, Harvey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
A general finding in the empirical literature on charitable giving is that among older individuals, both the probability of giving and the conditional amount of donations decrease with age, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we use data on giving by alumni at an anonymous university to investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950704
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Public Goods, Hidden Income, and Tax Evasion: Some Nonstandard Results from the Warm-Glow Model
Hungerman, Daniel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
A large literature explores crowd out in situations where public goods are jointly provided; work in this area typically depicts a tax system where individuals take taxes as given. But in some settings, such as those in developing economies, efforts to evade or avoid taxes may be widespread. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950756
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Toward an Understanding of why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
list, john; Edwards, James T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal attention. For their part, economists have recently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950806
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Incentivizing China's Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities: The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism
Kahn, Matthew E.; Zheng, Siqi; Sun, Weizeng; Luo, Danglun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
China's extremely high levels of urban air, water and greenhouse gas emissions levels pose local and global environmental challenges. China's urban leaders have substantial influence and discretion over the evolution of economic activity that generates such externalities. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950839