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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara - 2018

while children's altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric … explained by the need to provide incentives to high-altruism children. The implementing contract is always such that social care …

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Tax Compliance and Information Provision : A Field Experiment with Small Firms

Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2015

We study a field experiment on tax compliance in Slovenia. Small accounting companies were randomly assigned to an untreated control group and two treatment groups. Companies in the first treatment group received a letter that highlighted the importance of paying taxes and informed about the...

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Tax Morale and the Role of Social Norms and Reciprocity : Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2018

We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a social-norm treatment have lower tax morale relative to a control group while participants in a...

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The Labor Market Impacts of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Shamsuddin, Mrittika; Acosta, Pablo A.; Schwengber, Rovane - 2022

As more and more Venezuelans leave their country, fleeing the economic and social crisis, the number of Venezuelans in Brazil has risen steadily since 2016, constituting about 18.6 percent of Brazil's 1.4 million refugee and migrant population as of October 2020. Past research finds that the...

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Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids

Cremer, Helmuth - 2013

scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible …

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The Health Implications of Social Pensions : Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Cheng, Lingguo - 2016

This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy experiment, we address the endogeneity of pension income by...

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Demography and Provisions for Retirement : The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2020

Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully-funded occupational pension systems, mandatory social security financed by pay-as-you-go, and old-fashioned hoarding in cash. Here, we call the specific mixture...

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Couples' Retirement Under Individual Pension Design : A Regression Discontinuity Study for France

Stancanelli, Elena - 2016

Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use labor-force survey data, pooled over different years, on fifty thousand French couples and apply...

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Taxing Pensions

Cremer, Helmuth - 2016

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

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Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions : Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis

de Grip, Andries - 2019

Pension schemes in the Netherlands allow workers to redistribute their own pension wealth to increase the survivor pension of their partner. However, due to lacking communication and knowledge of survivor pensions among workers, and also due to the lack of transparent products and choice...

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