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Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits : Evidence from Discontinuities
Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2008
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers currently perceive the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive. We estimate the effects of the marginal Social Security benefits that accrue with additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464110
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What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness
Fong, Christina M. - 2007
respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and deservingness of Katrina victims in one of two small cities. Respondents then … income manipulation had a significant effect on giving; respondents gave more when they perceived the victims to be poorer … victims was significantly influenced by both our race and deservingness manipulations, but not by the income manipulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465435
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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex - 2012
In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...
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