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Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants' voting behavior
Dev, Divya; Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2021
voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe …, we study how the host country's turnout affects expatriates' electoral participation in the 2017 Chilean Presidential … election. We focus on the 2014 European Parliament election turnout in the district of the Chilean's geocoded residence and …
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That's Just - Not Fair: Gender Differences in Notions of Justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002
altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324743
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007
altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325476
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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....
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Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics
Dur, Robert; van Lent, Max - 2016
-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …
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Increasing the Well-Being of Others On-the-Job and Outside the Workplace
van Lent, Max - 2017
We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819454
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Dedicated Doctors : Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053269
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The Optimal Degree of Polarization
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto - 2001
In the literature on electoral politics full convergence of policy platforms is usually regarded as socially optimal. Thereason is that risk-averse voters prefer a sure middle-of-the-road policy to a lottery of two extremes with the sameexpectation. In this paper we study the normative...
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Do Elections lead to Informed Public Decisions?
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003
and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections …. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re …
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