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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2011
respondents with high income and wealth. We also establish that OLS estimators that do not properly deal with endogeneity problems …
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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution: Reply
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2013
In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321467
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Optimal targeting in fundraising: A machine-learning approach
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021
Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662717
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Intertemporal prosocial choice: The inconsistency puzzle
Islam, Marco - 2022
How does delay in the realization of a prosocial decision affect prosocial choice? This paper first provides a meta-analysis that collects existing evidence on the temporal consistency of prosocial behavior. I show that the evidence on the delay effect on prosocial choice is contradicting but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318975
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Economic incentives and social preferences: A reference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is pervasive, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287842
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The big carrot: High-stakes incentives revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2009
Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. First, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a salient role in religious performance. Second, we find that, when both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335978
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … Switzerland may help to explain the difference in the amount of U.S. and EU income redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315581
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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321811
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Social segregation and the dynamics of group inequality
Bowles, Samuel; Sethi, Rajiv - 2006
We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent group at a disadvantage in acquiring human capital. Extending Loury (1977), we demonstrate that (i) group differences in economic success can persist across generations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287830
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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others
Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - 2006
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy we find that differences in disposable income, and especially … differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321606