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Cooperation and mistrust in relational contracts
Herz, Holger; Schmutzler, Armin; Volk, André - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 166 (2019), pp. 366-380
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Group selection : the quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite...
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Student loans and repayment : theory, evidence and policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2014
Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...
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Environmental participation and environmental motivation
Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008
We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...
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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421177
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Selection into experiments : evidence from a population of students
Schulz, Jonathan F.; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; … - 2019
a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …
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Pay-what-you-want to support independent information : a field experiment on motivation
Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809908
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Pay-what-you-want to support independent information : a field experiment on motivation
Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803282
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Partisan Interactions : Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2015
are likely to be subject to social effects. We conducted a field experiment to identify some of these social effects. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146325
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Quality-aware tax incentives for charitable contributions
Halberstam, Zachary; Hines, James R. - 2023
This paper characterizes efficient tax subsidies for charitable contributions, and considers the properties of potential reforms. Contributions are underprovided in the absence of subsidies, and are misdirected if subsidies fail to account for all of the costs that donors incur. It is costly for...
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