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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley; Smith, Sarah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size...

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An impure public good model with lotteries in large groups

Cabrales, Antonio; Lugo, Haydée - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze the effect of a large group on an impure public goods model with lotteries. We show that as populations get large, and with selfish preferences, the level of contributions converges to the one given by voluntary contributions. With altruistic preferences (of the warm glow type), the...

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Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey

Heathcote, Jonathan; Tsujiyama, Hitoshi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

What structure of income taxation maximizes the social benefits of redistribution while minimizing the social harm associated with distorting the allocation of labor input? Many authors have advocated scrapping the current tax system, which redistributes primarily via marginal tax rates that...

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Distributional Conflicts, Power and Multiple Growth Paths

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper shows that multiple growth paths may occur in a politico-economic model of endogenous growth. This multiplicity is characterized by the coexistence of a low-tax, low-capital-flight equilibrium and a high-tax, high-capital-flight equilibrium. The likelihood of multiplicity is crucially...

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Educational Choice, Lifetime Earnings Inequality, and Conflicts of Public Policy

Weizsäcker, Robert K von - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Drawing on and extending the theory of human capital, a comprehensive life-cycle model of individual earnings is designed. The approach taken permits an isolated analysis of three interconnected levels of aggregation (intra-cohort distribution, overall distribution, and lifetime distribution)...

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Mortality Risks, Education and Child Labour

Baland, Jean-Marie; Estevan, Fernanda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

that mortality risks are a major source of risks in returns to education in developing countries. We show that, in the …. Uncertain returns to education, endogenous mortality or imperfect capital markets unambiguously increase child labour. When the …

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The Survival of the Welfare State

Hassler, John; Mora, José V Rodríguez; Storesletten, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper provides an analytical characterization of Markov perfect equilibria in a model with repeated majority voting, where agents vote over income redistribution. The key feature of the theory is that the future constituency of redistributive policies depends positively on the current level...

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The Design of Optimal Education Policies

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The paper studies the optimal education policy of a budget-constrained utilitarian government. Households differ in … information. Households can choose to use private education, but cannot borrow to finance it. The results we obtain are striking …. The optimal education policy is elitist: it increases the spread between the education achievement of the bright and the …

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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Gang, Ira; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

difference in favour of father’s education over mother’s education. …

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The Dynamics of the Racial Test Score Gap During the School Years in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

differences in parents' involvement in education. We find that a non-negligible part of the test score racial gap can be explained … by these cultural differences. In particular, we show that if non-white parents would invest in education of their 11 …

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