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The welfare effects of persuasion and taxation : theory and evidence from the field

Rodemeier, Matthias; Löschel, Andreas - 2020

taxes on energy-inefficient products yield larger welfare gains than any information policy. We also document an important … effectiveness of taxes. …

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When nudges fail to scale : field experimental evidence from goal setting on mobile phones

Löschel, Andreas; Rodemeier, Matthias; Werthschulte, … - 2020

Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology ("nudges") have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...

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Adaptation, Anticipation-bias and optimal income taxation

Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2012

-bias through a combination of time-variant marginal labor income taxes and savings subsidies. Furthermore, the optimal policy mix …

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Sin taxes and self-control

Schmacker, Renke; Smed, Sinne - 2020

"Sin taxes" are high on the political agenda in the global fight against obesity. According to theory, they are welfare … that consumers with low self-control reduce purchases less strongly than consumers with high self-control when taxes go up …, but increase purchases to a similar extent when taxes go down. Hence, we document an asymmetry in the responsiveness to …

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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness

Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017

A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...

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Habit formation and the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods

Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017

This paper examines the implications of habit formation in private and public consumption for the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods, based on a two-period model with nonlinear taxation. If the public good supply is time-invariant, the presence of habit formation generally alters the...

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Optimal need-based financial aid

Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2019

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...

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Redistributive income taxation with directed technical change

Löbbing, Jonas - 2023

What are the implications of (endogenous) directed technical change for the design of redistributive income taxes? I …

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The taxation of couples

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C.; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023

Are reforms towards individual taxation politically feasible? Are they desirable from a welfare perspective? We develop a method to answer such questions and apply it to the US federal income tax since the 1960s. Main findings are: As of today, Pareto-improvements require a move away from joint...

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"More bang for the buck"? : evidence on the effectiveness of an energy efficiency subsidy

Bartels, Lara; Werthschulte, Madeline - 2023

With the aim of limiting global warming, environmental subsidies are a popular public finance instrument to reduce carbon emissions. However, there is little evidence on why subsidies are effective in increasing demand for the goods subsidized. We use a framed field experiment to disentangle and...

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