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Pawns and Queens Revisited : Public Provision of Private Goods When Individuals Make Mistakes
Pirttila, Jukka; Tenhunen, Sanna - 2021
This paper analyses the optimal tax policy and public provision of private goods when individuals differ in two respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the decentralised optimum, if society's marginal valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318503
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291889
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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services
Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021
We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of a governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316659
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Humanistic Digital Governance
Snower, Dennis; Twomey, Paul - 2021
We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: “third-party funded digital barter”: consumers of digital services get many digital services for free (or underpriced) and in return have personal information about themselves collected for free. In addition, the digital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314749
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De-Fueling Externalities: Causal Effects of Fuel Taxation and Mediating Mechanisms for Delivering Climate and Health Benefits
Basaglia, Pier; Behr, Sophie M.; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2023
effectiveness of fuel taxes to deliver climate and health benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377482
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Attitudes toward Women's Education in Afghanistan: Empirical Evidence from a Nationwide Survey
Asadi, Mohammad Haroon; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024
This study investigates men's attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan, focusing on primary, secondary, and … toward women's education are predominantly negative, notably in rural areas. However, women's contributions to household … income significantly mitigate these negative attitudes, particularly toward secondary education, followed by tertiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061943
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266032
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
are shut down post acquisition, which suggests that GAFAM mainly acquire firm's assets (functionality, technology, talent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842674
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Incentives and anonymity principle : crowding out toward users
Crifo, Patricia; Rullière, Jean-Louis - 2004
- egalitarian but more efficient. Low performing agents reduce inequality among users by delivering an egalitarian service, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276426
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Priority of Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
Cockx, Bart - 2020
Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator. While all programmes have positive effects after the lock-in period, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833725