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Socio-economic Diversity, Social Capital, and Tax Filing Compliance in the United States

Alm, James; Clark, Jeremy; Leibel, Kara - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

test whether county level heterogeneity in income, language, race and religion can explain variation in filing rates. While … rates. Regarding heterogeneity, non-filing rates do not seem to covary with household income inequality or home language …

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Economic Convergence in the EU: A Complexity Approach

Ertan Özgüzer, Gül; Oæguøs, Ayla - 2015

This paper tests, in the context of the EU countries, the evidence presented by Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009) that economic complexity indicator is a good predictor of economic growth. Our results suggest that a group of countries in the EU with an economic complexity exceeding a certain threshold...

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Input-Output Networks and Growth Performances across Countries

Duman, Alper; Ertan Özgüzer, Gül - 2015

importance of designation of sectoral policy measures to counteract heterogeneity of IO networks. …

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Does Higher Social Diversity Affect People’s Contributions to Local Schools? Evidence from New Zealand

Armstrong, Hayden; Clark, Jeremy - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

years 2001 and 2006 to estimate whether social heterogeneity affects a school’s ability to raise funds locally. Individual … school revenue data is matched with measures of the heterogeneity of the neighbourhood in which the school is located. We … consider heterogeneity by language, ethnicity, religion and income. After running cross-section and fixed effects regressions …

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A Dynamic Tobit Model of Female Labor Supply

Islam, Nizamul - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

amount of unobserved heterogeneity, first order state dependence and serially correlated error components. The findings … suggest that the first order state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are very sensitive to the initial condition. …

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Dynamic labour force participation of married women in Sweden

Islam, Nizamul - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

model is applied, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data to … allow for a rich dynamic structure. Significant unobserved heterogeneity is found, along with serial correlation in the … heterogeneity. <p> …

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Cooperative Harvesting and Core Allocations in Fisheries

Bardarson, Hermann - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2003

The use of renewable resources is examined as a cooperative production game, the focus here being on fisheries. It is shown how pooling and exchange of individual endowments may open for substitutions that generate greater efficiency. We introduce a sharing rule that complies with the core...

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Compensatory inter vivos gifts

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2000

Empirical studies of intergenerational transfers usually find that bequests are equally divided among heirs while inter vivos gifts tend to be compensatory. Using the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we find that only 4% of parents who give, divide their gifts equally...

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BEQUESTS, GIFTS, AND EDUCATION Swedish evidence on parents’ transfer behavior

Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

We study the motives behind parents’ transfers to their children, and the relationship between tangible transfers and educational investments. Another issue is the channels parents choose for tangible transfers. Do they use bequests and inter vivos gifts as substitutes or complements? We use a...

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Easy come, easy go - The role of windfall money in lab and field experiments

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

A growing number of experimental studies focus on the differences between the lab and the field. Important in this issue is the role of windfall money. By conducting a dictator game, where the recipient is a charity organization, in exactly the same way in the laboratory and in the field, we...

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