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The transmission of sustainable harvesting norms when agents are conditionally cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - 2013 - Draft version: 15 May 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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Volunteering and life or financial shocks : does income and wealth matter?

Beatton, Tony; Torgler, Benno - 2014

Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering is extensive, knowledge on how life’s discontinuities (life event shocks) affect volunteering is limited because most studies work with static (cross-sectional) data. To...

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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 - Rev. version

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 …

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Redistribution within the tax-benefit system in Austria

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Lorenz, Hanno; … - 2020

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

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Environmental participation and environmental motivation

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008

We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...

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A tragic solution to the collective action problem : implication for corruption, conflict and inequality

Nieva, Ricardo - 2020

We study the role of an enforcer in the effectiveness of selective incentives in solving the collective action problem when groups take part in a contest. Cost functions exhibit constant elasticity of marginal effort costs. If prize valuations are homogeneous, our source of heterogeneity induces...

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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...

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Distributional effects of taxation in Latin America

Pessino, Carola; Rasteletti, Alejandro; Artana, Daniel A.; … - 2023

impact is equalizing for direct taxes and unequalizing for indirect taxes. Overall, redistribution through taxes, without … of the corporate income tax contributes to improve redistribution and accounts for better comparison with the …

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Is the welfare state sustainable? : experimental evidence on citizens' preferences for redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are … elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its … appear sustainable. -- Income redistribution ; welfare state ; sustainability ; preferences ; willingness to pay ; discrete …

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Decreasing incomes increase selfishness

Gagnon, Nickolas; Saulle, Riccardo D.; Zaunbrecher, … - 2021

redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First … effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, we delve into the history behind one's income to isolate the effect …

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