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Chau, Nancy H.; Qin, Yu; Zhang, Weiwen - 2016

subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the role of leader networks on the boundary between …

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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...

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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014

Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...

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European asylum policy

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development

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We examine the human development consequences of transferring responsibility for public service provision to local governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that devolution of the responsibility for health functions from...

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a monopoly. Workers can specialize in material goods production … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …

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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015

authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA), took planning control away from local councils in selected areas in … order to increase the speed and scale of development in those areas, in the process increasing land values. Using micro … inside and outside the ULDA areas, finding that 'connected' landowners owned 75% of land inside the rezoned areas, and only …

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Making - or picking - winners : evidence of internal and external price effects in historic preservation policies

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paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper outlines a general case of land use regulation …

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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu Por - 2012

farming back from the communal system, endowed rural households not only with land use rights, but also with de facto labor …

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