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Bettendorf, L.; Dijkgraaf, E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

See also the article 'Religion and income: heterogeneity between countries' in the Journal of Economic Behavior and … respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …

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Health and Inequality

O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Ourti, Tom Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This discussion paper led to a chapter in: (A.B. Atkinson, F.J. Bourguigson (Eds.)), 2014, 'Handbook of Income … Distribution', volume 2B, North Holland, Elsevier, chapter 18, 143 pages. We examine the relationship between income and health … with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income …

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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the Journal of Public Economics (2013). Volume 105, pages 72-85. In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either...

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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance. Using data from six biennial waves of the Health and Retirement …

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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties

Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual ('utilityinterdependence')....

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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of...

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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces...

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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

will result in a reduction of average welfare and an increase in the income inequality between workers and retired people/individuals. …

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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database

Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...

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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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