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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 1995

A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child...

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Can we fight drugs using communication campaigns? A framed field experiment

Ibanez, Marcela; Vasquez, Juanita - 2016

This paper uses a framed field experiment to test the effect of persuasive communication as a strategy in the fight against drugs in Colombia. Our design varies the salience and the degree of informativeness of the messages that participants receive, while highlighting particular negative...

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Adaptation under Traditional Gender Roles: Testing the Baseline Hypothesis in South Korea

Rudolf, Robert; Kang, Sung-Jin - 2011

Using detailed longitudinal data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) from 1998 to 2008, this paper analyzes gender-specific impacts as well as anticipation and adaptation to major life and labor market events. We focus on six major events: marriage, divorce, widowhood,...

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Sufficient Welfare Indicators Allowing Disagreement in Evaluations of Social Welfare

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Lurås, Hilde; Nyborg, Karine - 1994

There is no consensus on how to measure interpersonally comparable, cardinal utility. Despite of this, people repeatedly make welfare evaluations in their everyday lives. However, people do not always agree on such evaluations, and this is one important reason for political disagreements. Thus,...

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The Political Man and Contingent Valuation: Motives Do Count

Nyborg, Karine - 1996

In addition to his role as a consumer pursuing his own interests, an individual may also regard himself as an ethical observer, judging matters from society's point of view. It is not clear which of these possibly conflicting roles respondents in contingent valuation studies take on. This leads...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Democratic Ideal

Nyborg, Karine; Spangen, Inger - 1997

In traditional cost-benefit analyses of public projects, every citizen's willingness to pay for a project is given an equal weight. This is sometimes taken to imply that cost-benefit analysis is a democratic method for making public decisions, as opposed to, for example, political processes...

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An Experimental Investigation of Social Norms

Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil - 2001

Several economists have maintained that social and internalized norms can enforce cooperation in public good situations. This experimental study investigates impacts of social and internalized norms for cooperation among strangers in a public good game. The experiment has two treatment effects....

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Indirect Social Sanctions from Monetarily Unaffected Strangers in a Public Good Game

Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil - 2003

Several economists have maintained that social sanctions can enforce cooperation in public good situations. This experimental study investigates whether indirect social sanctions from monetarily unaffected observers can increase contributions to a public good. The experiment has two treatment...

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Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment

Metzger, Laura; Günther, Isabel - 2015

A considerable and increasing share of foreign aid stems from private donations. Hence, individual donors can increase social welfare in developing countries by directing their funds to the most effective NGOs. Surprisingly few studies have analyzed whether private donors care about aid...

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2009

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived fairness will experience higher levels of life-time utility and are … perceived more positively with increased expected fairness. The opposite is expected for countries with low actual social …

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