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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/full"><I>Journal of Applied Econometrics</I></A>, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance. Using data from six biennial waves of the Health and Retirement...</i></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255669
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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance. Using data from six biennial waves of the Health and Retirement Study 1992–2002, we estimate grouped tobit-type latent variable models with multi-level error...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144428
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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Institute - 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/10005144543
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Institute - 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/10005136921
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 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/10011256427
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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Instituut - 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/10011257498
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Do Elections lead to Informed Public Decisions?
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255916
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How Polarization and Political Instability affect Learning through Experimentation
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
following elections (exogenous elections) and <LI>the decision is salient and the election outcome depends on it (endogenous … elections). </OL> We show that while the possibility of learning increases activism, the existence of political instability … distorts learning. Furthermore, in contrast to the existing literature, we demonstrate that, when elections are exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144519
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Do Elections lead to Informed Public Decisions?
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137020
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How Polarization and Political Instability affect Learning through Experimentation
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
elections (exogenous elections) andthe decision is salient and the election outcome depends on it (endogenous elections).We show …. Furthermore, in contrast to the existing literature, wedemonstrate that, when elections are exogenous, polarization between … political parties does not always decreaseactive learning. In the case with endogenous elections we find that electoral concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256440