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The Effect of Neighbourhood Diversity on Volunteering: Evidence from New Zealand
Clark, Jeremy; Kim, Bonggeun - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009
An empirical literature has found that neighborhood heterogeneity lowers people's likelihood of contributing to public goods. We show that the estimated effect of any concave neighborhood characteristic on behavior may be biased when “large” rather than “small” neighborhoods are used....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972800
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Socio-economic Diversity, Social Capital, and Tax Filing Compliance in the United States
Alm, James; Clark, Jeremy; Leibel, Kara - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
In this paper we present a rare empirical study on the determinants of tax filing compliance in the United States using county and state level data from 2000 to 2006. As well as including explanatory variables identified in the rational compliance framework such as audit and penalty rates, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369230
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The income of the Swedish baby boomers
Flood, Lennart; Klevmarken, Anders; Mitrut, Andreea - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006
This paper study the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e those born in the 1940-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income patterns is given. However, the main purpose is to generate the future income of the baby boom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651672
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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635709
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Altruism and Career Concerns
Shchetinin, Oleg - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent’s motivation in the career concerns model. I show that career … concerns incentive is lessened by altruism. As a consequence, altruism can decrease effort, though conventional wisdom suggests … interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The paper also studies the effect of altruism on wage. Interestingly, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513135
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Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?
Mellström, Carl; Johannesson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005
subjects can choose between a SEK 50 payment and donating SEK 50 to charity. The results differ markedly between men and women … introduced. There is also a significant effect of allowing individuals to donate the payment to charity, and this effect fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190951
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Compensatory inter vivos gifts
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2000
Empirical studies of intergenerational transfers usually find that bequests are equally divided among heirs while inter vivos gifts tend to be compensatory. Using the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we find that only 4% of parents who give, divide their gifts equally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423918
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BEQUESTS, GIFTS, AND EDUCATION Swedish evidence on parents’ transfer behavior
Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002
We study the motives behind parents’ transfers to their children, and the relationship between tangible transfers and educational investments. Another issue is the channels parents choose for tangible transfers. Do they use bequests and inter vivos gifts as substitutes or complements? We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423942
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Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers
Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005
To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration (unification) of the different transfers taxes affect tax avoidance? These issues are important for families and their welfare, as well as for governments and their possibilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651678
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Global environmental problems, efficiency and limited altruism
Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004
market may still undertake globally efficient abatement investments, given the existence of limited nonpaternalistic altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651775