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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers

Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019

We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities' location such that each donor...

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Transfers or public good provision? : A political allocation perspective

Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 1994

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

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Social image concerns and welfare take-up

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...

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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms

Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023

People with higher-incomes tend to support less redistribution than lower-income people. This has been attributed not … each of these mechanisms and compare their mediating roles in the relationship between status and redistribution. In our … primary mechanism underlying self-serving differences in support for redistribution. …

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...

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Government expenditure in the DINA framework : allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...

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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget

König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

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Taxes and the division of social status

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2023

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