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On the Crowding-Out Effects of Tax-Financed Charitable Contributions by the Government
Krause, Alan - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
An important question in the literature on charitable contributions is the extent to which tax-financed contributions by the government crowd out private contributions. This paper examines a simple model of charitable contributions in which there exist both warm-glow and public good motives for...
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The optimal composition of government expenditure among transfers, education and public goods.
Creedy, John; Moslehi, Solamz - In: Hacienda Pública Española 194 (2010) 3, pp. 41-64
This paper examines the optimal allocation of tax revenue among a universal transfer payment, a pure public good and expenditure on education. Using a single-period framework, education expenditure raises the productivity of individuals via a human capital production function. The social welfare...
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Altruism and charitable giving in a fully replicated economy
Gaube, Thomas - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2005
In this paper, an economy is analyzed where one group of agents, the altruists, cares about the well-being of another group of agents, the recipients. It is asked how changes in the size of these groups affect the altruists’ charitable giving in the Nash equilibrium. I show that a pure group...
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Why Are Economics Students More Selfish than the Rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
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Altruism and Noisy Behavior in One-Shot Public Goods Experiments
Goeree, Jacob K.; Holt, Charles A.; Laury, Susan K. - University of Virginia, Department of Economics - 1999
. Contributions are generally increasing in the external return and group size, which suggests that altruism in this context is not … individuals are motivated by own and others' earnings, and in which choice is stochastic. Maximum likelihood estimates of altruism …
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Public- and private-good values of statistical lives Results from a combined choice-experiment and contingent-valuation survey
Strand, Jon - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related illnesses and traffic accidents. 1000 randomly chosen individuals in Norway...
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Public Goods Games, Altruism, and Evolution
Alger, Ingela - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2009
altruistic individual is better off materially. Between pairs, individuals in the pair with the highest degree of altruism are … better off materially. I determine the evolutionarily stable degree of altruism, allowing for assortative matching. The … stable degree of altruism is strictly smaller than the degree of assortativity, and it may be negative. It is also increasing …
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung Ha; Bowles, Samuel - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2008
embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …
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A Note on the Design of Experiments Involving Public Goods
Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010
Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
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