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Grossmann, Volker - 2010

The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...

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The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies Under New Labour : A Shapley Decomposition

Bargain, Olivier - 2009

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....

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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity

Porqueras, Pedro Gomis - 2011

-in-differences estimation strategy in the NHIS data, as has been done in several other data sets. Depending on the specification, we find that …

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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Collischon, Matthias - 2020

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia

Gong, Xiaodong - 2015

This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size...

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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation : The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S

Lacetera, Nicola - 2013

In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...

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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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Unofficial Development Assistance : A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2011

specification. Using a newly assembled long panel of data, we find evidence of a strong, but diminishing fundraising effect. We find …

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Reference Points and Effort Provision

Abeler, Johannes - 2009

A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...

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Asset Integration, Risk Taking and Loss Aversion in the Laboratory

Morrison, William G. - 2019

We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion …, utilizing an asset integration protocol designed to ensure that a loss of cash provided by the experimenter is viewed as a real … loss by experimental participants. Our experimental design augments the Holt-Laury risk preference elicitation methodology …

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