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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269203
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269064
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The role of salience in performance schemes: Evidence from a field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282221
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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions
Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479222
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Back to the future: Decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work incentives, it is also crucial to evaluate behavioural responses and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274666
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Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values
Brügemann, Björn; Gautier, Pieter A.; Menzio, Guido - 2015
The paper revisits the problem of wage bargaining between a firm and multiple workers. We show that the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium of the extensive-form game proposed by Stole and Zwiebel (1996a) does not imply a profile of wages and profits that coincides with the Shapley values as claimed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345358
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Decomposing US Income Inequality à La Shapley: Race Matters, but Gender Too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and whites in the United States over the period 2005-2017. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180143
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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822546
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The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023
Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469822
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The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kong, Nancy; … - 2021
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale … scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability … important. The stability of self-control is particularly striking given our study period (2017-2020) spans the onset of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882552