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tax compliance literature. A homo economicus, with a more refined motivation structure, helps us to shed light on this …
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data with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly …
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experiment to test whether workers reciprocate wage cuts and raises with low or high work productivity. Wage cuts had a …, however, did not result in any productivity gains. The results from an additional control experiment with high monetary … reactions. Altogether, these results provide evidence consistent with a model of reciprocity, as opposed to inequality aversion. …
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What determines reciprocity in employment relations? We conducted a controlled field experiment to measure the extent …’s the thought that counts”. We underline this point by showing that also monetary gifts can effectively trigger reciprocity …
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This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for … charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters … contribution of this paper is twofold: first, it shows that reciprocity is an important motive for charitable giving, in addition …
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …
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Tax compliance has been studied in economics by analysing the individual decision of a representative person between paying and evading taxes. A neglected aspect of tax compliance is the interaction of taxpayers and tax authorities. The relationship between the two actors can be understood as an...
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The traditional economic approach to tax evasion does not appear to be particularly successful in explaining the extent of tax compliance. We argue instead that a psychological tax contract which establishes a fiscal exchange between the state and the citizens shapes tax compliance to a large...
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This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are...
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Historical evidence suggests that poor population groups are more likely to engage in conflict. We construct a theoretical model of the choice between appropriation and production. Fully specified production functions allow for both symmetrical outcomes and for introducing inequalities in...
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