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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...
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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 … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315581
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321606
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294856
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785714
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Inequality generating processes and measurement of the Matthew effect
Bask, Miia; Bask, Mikael - 2010
The first aim of this paper is to clarify the differences and rela-tionships between cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the Matthew ef-fect. Its second aim, which is also its main contribution, is not only to present a new measure of the Matthew effect, but also to show how to esti-mate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321398
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Media and social capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254717
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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294905
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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2011
immigration to Europe in recent decades will likely lead to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits … redistribution, defined as preferred social benefitt levels as obtained from panel survey data on inhabitants of the receiving … municipalities. The results show that a larger immigrant population leads to less support for redistribution, especially among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321380
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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution: Reply
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2013
diversity has a statistically and economically significant negative effect on preferences for redistribution is only marginally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321467