We elicit preferences for the allocation of public budget to groups of recipients through a discrete choice experiment performed with a representative sample of Swiss citizens. The total desired amount of income redistribution as a share of GDP and its allocation across groups of recipients are...

The objective of this paper is to measure preferences for income redistribution through the public budget when recipients differ in terms of their 'degree of merit' (such as the working poor) and their nationalities. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was performed involving a representative...

This paper uses subjects recruited from an online employment exchange to study the robustness of the triadic trust design with a different subject pool. In running our experiments we tried to take advantage of the cost reducing features of the micro-employment culture found on Amazon’s...

I conduct an on-line experiment to decompose giving in a dictator game into amounts motivated by pure altruism and amounts motivated by the warm glow of giving as defined in Andreoni (1989). By manipulating the price of benefit to the recipient while holding the price of the act of giving...

I conduct an on-line experiment to test the hypothesis that the divergence in behaver between men and women found in Mayo (2016) was caused by men and women following different economic norms. The definition of norms is based on Bicchieri (2005), and includes three elements: First, that men and...

Background: The systematic review is conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown measures of PRC with a history & continuation of nuclear proliferation, current electronic warfare, metallic pollution from military heavy industry, and actinic radiation pollutants from chip production. Apart from the...

In the following article, we analyzed a variable present in the ISTAT-BES dataset, namely "People You Can Count On"-PYCC for the Italian regions. Following an analysis of the time series aimed at highlighting the trends of the regions, we created a clustering with a k-Means algorithm optimized...

This paper investigates the impact of prolonged social distancing on generosity by analyzing the responses of 1255 US citizens to dictator games spread out over eight weeks of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the isolation and the negative effects on employment and household...

This research explores how regional socioeconomic variables affect the perception of social trust and support networks (PYCC) in Italian regions, and examines the implications for public policy designed to strengthen social cohesion. This study examines the variable "People You Can Count On"...

We use the Vietnam Living Standard Survey conducted in 1993 and in 1998 to analyze the determinants of private transfers among rural farmers. Private transfers are widespread and important relative to pre-transfer income levels of recipients in both years. Conducting parametric and...