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Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy

Keefer, Philip - 2011

Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...

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Maybe "honor thy father and thy mother" : uncertain family aid and the design of social long term care insurance

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz - 2016

's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care …

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Tax morale and the role of social norms and reciprocity : evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a social-norm treatment have lower tax morale relative to a control group while participants in a...

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Tax morale and the role of social norms and reciprocity : evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2017

We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a reciprocity treatment have significantly higher tax morale than those in a social-norm treatment. This...

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Uncertain altruism and non-linear long-term care policies

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2018 - reivsed June 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We … while children’s altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric …

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Tax morale and the role of social norms and reciprocity : evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872948

Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara - 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We … while children's altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric …

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Givings

Bell, Abraham; Parchomovsky, Gideon - 2008

Givings - government acts that enhance property value - are omnipresent. Givings and takings are mirror images of one another, and of equal practical and theoretical importance, but the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment has enabled takings to dominate scholarly attention. This Article makes...

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Chapter 12 Solidarity Norms and Institutions in Village Societies: Static and Dynamic Considerations

Platteau, Jean-Philippe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 819-886). 2006

The purpose of this essay is to argue that process-regarding preferences or social norms are pervasive in traditional village communities, yet are subject to gradual erosion under the influence of new forces, particularly population growth and market penetration. This is illustrated with respect...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...

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