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Consuming your way to efficiency : public goods provision through non-distortionary tax lotteries

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013

We revisit the classical result that financing a pure public good through taxation of private consumption is inefficient. To this standard setup we add a consumption contest in which consumers can win a prize. We show that an appropriately chosen contest - which we call a 'tax lottery' - can...

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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The China shock : learning from labor market adjustment to large changes in trade

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016

China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has toppled much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside its heralded consumer benefits, trade has both significant...

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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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Using spatial distribution of outlets to estimate gambling incidence

Dahan, Momi - 2017

The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries … merging data on the geographical location of gambling outlets, together with residents' socio-economic and demographic … results and yields a measure of -0.42, which implies that the implicit tax associated with gambling is highly regressive. …

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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays

Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019

outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation …

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Skewness preferences : evidence from online poker

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Kasinger, Johannes; Schneider, … - 2024

We test for skewness preferences in a large set of observational panel data on online poker games (n=4,450,585). Each observation refers to a choice between a safe option and a binary risk of winning or losing the game. Our setting offers a real-world choice situation with substantial incentives...

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Looming large or seeming small? : attitudes towards losses in a representative sample

Chapman, Jonathan; Snowberg, Erik; Wang, Stephanie; … - 2022

prevalent in people with high cognitive ability. Loss-tolerant individuals are more likely to report recent gambling and to have …

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Conflicts with multiple battlefields

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2010

This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed "battlefields". In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...

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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias : is it risk-love or misperceptions?

Snowberg, Eric; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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