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The opportunity costs of conservation with deterministic and probabilistic degradation externalities
Blanco, Esther; Lopez, Maria Claudia; Walker, James M. - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
, appropriation leads to deterministic degradation in the value of the commons. In the second game, appropriation leads to both … conserving the commons. The experimental design abstracts away from path-dependent group dynamics that allow for reputation … due to expected losses in the value of the commons. …
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Allocating a voluntarily provided common-property resource: An experimental examination
Stoddard, Brock; Walker, James M.; Williams, Arlington - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 101 (2014) C, pp. 141-155
allocating the resource to providers. Three allocation mechanisms are investigated: “allocator,” “tremble,” and “egalitarian …
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A theory of ethnic diversity and income distribution: A legislative bargaining approach
Tsuchimoto Menkyna, Fusako - In: European Journal of Political Economy 34 (2014) C, pp. 52-67
In this paper, I examine how the two dimensions of income inequality and ethnic diversity affect the formation of political coalitions and the reallocation of income. I construct a legislative bargaining model to analyze when coalitions form along the income dimension and when it forms along the...
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Tensions Between the Resource Damage and the Private Benefits of Appropriation in the Commons
Blanco, Esther; Lopez, Maria Claudia; Walker, James M. - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
This study examines appropriation decisions in a linear appropriation game setting with variations in the resource damage from appropriation and simultaneous variations in the resource damage and the opportunity cost of conservation, where the ratio of these two variables is held constant. In...
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Limited Liability, Moral Hazard and Risk Taking - A Safety Net Game Experiment
Neugebauer, Tibor; Füllbrunn, Sascha - Luxembourg School of Finance, Faculté de droit, … - 2010
smaller than predicted by theory. In comparison to the deterministic benchmark, individuals take higher loss avoidance levels …
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Keynes, family allowances, and Keynesian economic policy
Pressman, Steven - In: Review of Keynesian Economics 2 (2014) 4, pp. 508-526
This paper provides a short history of family allowances and documents the fact that Keynes supported family allowances as early as the 1920s, continuing through the 1930s and early 1940s. Keynes saw this policy as a way to help households raise their children and also as a way to increase...
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Dividing the Pie in Brazil: Income Distribution, Social Policies and the New Middle Class
Arnold, Jens; Jalles, João - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa...
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Political Geography and Income Inequalities
Gregorini, Filippo - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2009
This paper displays an analysis of geopolitical organizations within the framework proposed by Alesina and Spolaore (1997), where heterogeneity concerns the geographical space. This model adds heterogeneity in terms of income. Main results of the paper: (i) in the normative equilibrium (social...
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Benefit incidence analysis, needs and demography. Measurement issues and an empirical study for Kenya
Gaddis, Isis; Demery, Lionel - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012
Benefit incidence analysis is an extremely popular tool to assess the distribution of benefits from government expenditure in developing countries, particularly in the social sectors. The analysis describes the welfare impact of public spending on groups of people or households, typically along...
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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spiess, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
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