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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905178
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891763
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895602
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Information rents, economic growth and inequality : an empirical study of the United States
Rotta, Tomás Nielsen - In: Cambridge journal of economics 46 (2022) 2, pp. 341-370
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187433
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Tax morale and compliance behavior : first evidence on a causal link
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003960073
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Tax morale and compliance behavior : first evidence on a causal link
Halla, Martin - 2010 - Last update: March 5, 2012
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240991
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The Ethics of Tax Evasion : A Survey of Chinese Business Students in USA and China
McGee, Robert W.; Salimi, Anwar Y. - 2018
Tax evasion has existed historically. The present study lists rationalizations for tax evasion in a survey consisting of 18 questions. This survey has been used in the past including a survey of business students in China by McGee, Yoon and Li (2015). The present study surveys Chinese business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113797
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GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS, EDUCATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING: ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN COMPARISON WITH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 2000-2007
Guisan, M.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 9 (2009) 1
In this article we present an econometric analysis of the relationship between several indicators of economic development and wellbeing in Europe, the United States and Canada. We calculate a compound index of several indicators based on three groups: 1) Life satisfaction and income per capita,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012230
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U.S. Shadow Economies : A State-Level Study
Wiseman, Travis - 2015
Recent studies of shadow economies focus primarily on cross-country comparisons. Few have examined regional or state-level variations in underground economic activity. This paper presents estimates of the shadow economy for 50 U.S. states over the period 1997 to 2008. Results suggest that tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036033
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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality … to Theil's first and second inequality indices respectively. The LR values may either be used as a test statistic or to …. The answer to the process versus outcomes critique is thus not to stop calculating inequality measures, but to interpret …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641764