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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724349
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The welfare effects of greenbelt policy : evidence from England
Koster, Hans; Zabihidan, Mohammad Saeed - 2019
We measure the economic effects of urban growth boundaries or greenbelts that prohibit new construction beyond a predefined urban fringe. We focus on England, where 13% of the land area is designated as greenbelt land. Using spatial differencing, we show that the external effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987614
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Who wants safer streets? : explaining concern for public safety in Brazil
Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - 2001
Public action to prevent crime is often driven by concerns about public safety. But what generatesthose concerns ? Is … it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318590
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Risky moms, risky kids? : fertility and crime after the fall of the wall
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2019
We study the link between parental selection and child criminality. Following the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, the number of births halved in East Germany. These cohorts became markedly more likely to be arrested as they grew up in reunified Germany. This is observed for both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149749
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An urban overhead? : crime, agglomeration, and amenity
Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2023
Using data for 134 locations in New Zealand, we study the effects of crime and agglomeration on urban amenity. We find … that crime has significant negative effects on the value of urban amenity, with elasticities of approximately −0.06 for … approximately 2-3 times more sensitive to crime than average temperature. More uniquely, we find that controlling for crime leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261152
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Group formation in a public good experiment : on the dynamics of social ties structures
Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999
Economic behavior often takes place in groups of small numbers of peopleinteracting with each other (like work teams, neighborhoods, socialnetworks, etc.). Characteristic of such interaction is the development of(affective) interpersonal relationships, or social ties. According tosociologists,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302615
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Conditional cooperation and voluntary contributions to public goods
Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays arepeated public good game to astrangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations.Subjects in the partners conditioncontribute from the first period on significantly more to the public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303327
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Control without deception
Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000
Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking "others' behaviour" a controlled variable,but is eschewed by experimental economists because it may pollute thepool of subjects. This paper proposes andimplements a new experimental design, the Conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304381
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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343948
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When the quality of a nation triggers emigration
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348704