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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...
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Measuring electoral competitiveness : with application to the Indian States
Bhusana Dash, Bharatee; Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, … - 2018
We consider alternative methods of measuring the competitiveness of a majoritarian electoral system in the context of an analysis of Indian State elections. Our analysis highlights a number of weaknesses in the construction and interpretation of commonly used measures such as the effective...
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Pricing group membership
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Cabrales, Antonio - 2020
We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types’ which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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Institutions, opportunism and prosocial behavior : some experimental evidence
Cabrales, Antonio; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Hernán … - 2020
Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate the demand for different levels of institutions that...
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Out-group penalties in refugee assistance : a survey experiment
Cattaneo, Cristina; Gireco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - 2024
We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...
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The words that keep people apart : official language, accountability and fiscal capacity
Baronchelli, Adelaide; Foresta, Alessandra; Ricciuti, … - 2020
This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The main hypothesis is that if the average citizen...
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Wealth transfer taxation : a survey
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative: we are looking at the design of an optimal tax structure from the standpoint of both equity and efficiency. The gist of this survey is that the optimal design closely depends on...
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Who cares? : attitudes towards redistribution and fiscal austerity
Brown, Sarah; Kontonikas, Alexandros; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2021
We present new evidence showing that fiscal austerity strengthens support for redistribution, especially for the relatively well-off. Our theoretical model proposes two mechanisms to explain this heterogeneity in support for redistribution: "altruism" and "appreciation". We test our theoretical...
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Sanctioning and trustworthiness across ethnic groups : experimental evidence from Afghanistan
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Levely, Ian - 2018
We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill … signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among which we ask a large representative sample of German human …
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