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The case for NIT+FT in Europe : an empirical optimal taxation exercise
Islam, Nizamul; Colombino, Ugo - 2017
We present an exercise in empirical optimal taxation for European countries from three areas: Southern, Central and Northern Europe. For each country, we estimate a microeconometric model of labour supply for both couples and singles. A procedure that simulates the households' choices under...
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Estimating the Laffer tax rate on capital income : cross-base responses matter!
Lefebvre, Marie-Noëlle; Lehmann, Etienne; Sicsic, Michaël - 2023
We theoretically express the Laffer tax rate on capital income as a function of the elasticities of capital income (the "direct" elasticity) and of labor income (the "cross" elasticity) with respect to the net-of-tax rate on capital income. We estimate these elasticities using salient capital...
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A real-effort experiment on gift exchange with temptation
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2015
the workers' motivation. We observe that the temptation of the internet hampers workers' willingness to reciprocate fair … temptation aspect dominates depends on the worker's reciprocity: for highly reciprocal workers the control aspect dominates; for … non-reciprocal workers the temptation aspect dominates. …
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Risk, temptation, and efficiency in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma
Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2021
) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … non-student subject pool, which allows us to assess generalizability of results. In both studies we find that temptation …
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The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma
Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2024
The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is arguably the most important model of social dilemmas, but our knowledge about how a PD's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD...
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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Procrastination, academic success and the effectiveness of a remedial program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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Does self-control depletion affect risk attitudes?
Gerhardt, Holger; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2015
A core prediction of recent "dual-self" models is that a person's risk attitudes depend on her current level of self-control. While these models have received a lot of attention, empirical studies tailored to testing their core prediction are lacking. Using two prominent models, we derive...
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The stability of self-control in a population representative study
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kong, Nancy; … - 2021
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not...
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