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The Effects of Information, Social and Economic Incentives on Voluntary Undirected Blood Donations : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Argentina

Iajya, Victor - 2012

large-scale, natural field experiment in Argentina testing the effectiveness of information, social and economic incentives …. We find that only higher-valued economic incentives generated more donations, increasing in the value of the incentive …. These incentives did not create adverse selection in the safety and usability of the donated blood. We discuss the …

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Behavioral Responses to Taxes : Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply

Eissa, Nada - 2012

Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...

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Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Benefit Formula

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2015

at approximately age 57. Thus, older workers face strong incentives to earn enough to obtain creditable coverage through …

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Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Cotton, Christopher - 2014

Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created …

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When Incentives Matter Too Much : Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information

Ahn, Thomas - 2014

When economic agents make decisions on the basis of an information set containing both a continuous variable and a discrete signal based on that variable, theory suggests that the signal should have no bearing on behavior conditional on the variable itself. Numerous empirical studies, many based...

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Health, Financial Incentives, and Early Retirement : Micro-Simulation Evidence for Germany

Juerges, Hendrik - 2014

paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick …

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The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation : Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards

Ito, Koichiro - 2014

perverse incentives to distort the attribute upon which compliance depends. We develop a theoretical framework to predict how …

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Earnings Test, Non-Actuarial Adjustments and Flexible Retirement

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2018

In response to the challenges of increasing longevity, an obvious policy response is to gradually increase the statutory eligibility age for public pension benefits and to shut down pathways to early retirement such as special rules for women. This is, however, very unpopular. As an alternative,...

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How Effective are Fiscal Incentives for R&D? a New Review of the Evidence

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Van Reenen, John - 2021

This paper surveys the econometric evidence on the effectiveness of fiscal incentives for R&D. We describe the effects …

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Is the Affordable Care Act Different from Romneycare? A Labor Economics Perspective

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2013

Measured in percentage points, the Affordable Care Act will, by 2015, add about fourteen times more to average marginal labor income tax rates nationwide than the Massachusetts health reform added to average rates in Massachusetts following its 2006 statewide health reform. The rate impacts are...

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