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Political economics of higher education finance
Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - 2009
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income. We compare four different systems and analyse voters' choices among them: a traditional subsidy scheme, a pure loan scheme, income contingent loans and graduate taxes. Using...
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The ex ante incentive compatible core in exchange economies with and without indivisibilities
Forges, Françoise (contributor) - 2006
The ex ante incentive compatible core of an exchange economy with private information is the (standard) core of a socially designed characteristic function, which expresses the fact that coalitions allocate goods by means of random incentive compatible mechanisms. We first survey some results in...
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Reelection threshold contracts in politics
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2001
When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social …
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Teachers' desired mobility to disadvantaged schools : do financial incentives matter?
Silhol, Julien; Wilner, Lionel - 2022
This paper exploits a 2018 reform of teachers' financial incentives to work in some French disadvantaged schools. Based … on this quasi-natural experiment, it evaluates the impact of those incentives on teachers' stated preferences to move to …
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest...
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A theory of indifference based on status-seeking behaviour
Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Pandey, … - 2023
psychology and economic theory literature on the causes and consequences of status-seeking behaviour. It integrates the idea in a …
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Incentive and signaling effects of bonus payments : an experiment in a company
Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …
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Strict incentives and strategic uncertainty
Carlsson, Hans; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2019 - This Version: June 10, 2019
. While this question has been widely discussed in the literature, the focus is usually either on strict incentives for … incentives and robustness to strategic uncertainty. The result is a set valued solution, a variant of which is shown to exist for …
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The efficient side of progressive income taxation
Corneo, Giacomo - 2000
This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781645