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Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2008"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors test whether OECD countries compete with each other over corporate taxes in order to attract investment and find evidence that countries compete over all three measures, but particularly over the statutory tax rate and the effective average tax rate.

561 citations


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TL;DR: Reliability figures for subjective well-being measures are lower than those typically found for education, income and many other microeconomic variables, but they are probably sufficiently high to support much of the research that is currently being undertaken on subjectiveWell-being, particularly in studies where group means are compared.

524 citations


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TL;DR: This paper showed that in the presence of counter-punishment opportunities, cooperators are less willing to punish free riders, and cooperation breaks down and groups have lower earnings in comparison to a treatment without punishments where free riding is predominant.

516 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys over 50 countries and time periods between 1972 and 2005.

498 citations


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TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica and found that giving a small gift before requesting a contribution increases the likelihood of a positive contribution.

416 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the structure and composition of social networks on university campuses and investigated the processes that lead to their formation, finding that race is strongly related to social ties, even after controlling for a variety of measures of socioeconomic background, ability and college activities.

413 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, an empirical study of partial hedonic adaptation is presented, which provides longitudinal evidence that people who become disabled go on to exhibit considerable recovery in mental well-being.

408 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model the opportunities and incentives generated by international tax differences for international profit shifting by multinationals and empirically examine the extent of intra-European profit shifting of European multinationals.

383 citations


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TL;DR: The results suggest that, in its first 10Â years, the establishment of universal health insurance for the elderly had no discernible impact on elderly mortality, but a substantial reduction in the elderly's exposure to out of pocket medical expenditure risk is found.

363 citations


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TL;DR: This article developed a model in which profits of media firms depend on their audience ratings, and maximizing profits may involve catering to a partisan audience by suppressing information that the partisan audience does not like hearing.

328 citations


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TL;DR: This article found that missions organized by radical religious clubs that provide benign local public goods are both more lethal and are more likely to be suicide attacks than missions organised by other terrorist groups with similar aims and theologies.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the normative criteria with which to allocate policy tasks to elected policymakers (politicians) or non-elected bureaucrats are investigated, and the case in which politicians choose when to delegate and show that the two generally differ.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a participant is presented with the opportunity to contribute from her own endowment to a charity of choice, and the amount the designated charity will receive is preset; any contribution by the participant crowds out dollar-for-dollar giving by the proctor.

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TL;DR: The authors examined whether minimum competency school accountability systems, such as those created under No Child Left Behind, influence the distribution of student achievement and found that low achieving students perform better than expected in math when many of their classmates' math scores are important for the schools' rating.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a natural experiment based on blind and non-blind scores that students receive on matriculation exams in their senior year was used to test for the existence of gender stereotyping and discrimination by public high-school teachers in Israel.

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TL;DR: The authors identify five factors that increase the likelihood of a disparity between revealed preferences and normative preferences: passive choice, complexity, limited personal experience, third-party marketing, and intertemporal choice.

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TL;DR: The authors argue that no simple criterion based on preference or choice-based criteria can solve these problems and that evaluations of welfare will inevitably have to be informed by a combination of both approaches, patched together in a fashion that depends on the specific context.

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TL;DR: For a three-year time period beginning in 2001, North Carolina awarded an annual bonus of $1800 to certified math, science and special education teachers working in public secondary schools with either high-poverty rates or low test scores.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at a primary school programme introduced into English schools, the literacy hour, to work out whether changing the structure and content of teaching can enhance literacy skills, thus acting as a tool to alleviate problems of low literacy.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a dynamic equilibrium model of the careers of politicians in a political economy with a private sector and a political sector, where individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their market ability as well as their political skills is proposed.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theory of corporate social responsibility in the form of the private provision of public goods and private redistribution by a firm, where social expenditures are determined by a manager operating under a compensation contract chosen by shareholders in a capital market that prices social expenditures.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law affected the quality of jobs workers found after periods of unemployment and showed that reducing the potential duration of unemployment benefits had no detectable effect on wages, on the probability of securing a permanent rather than a temporary job, or on the duration of the post-unemployment job.

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TL;DR: The authors found a favorable correlation between generosity and happiness and examined various possible explanations, including that material well-being causes both happiness and generosity, but the evidence from this experiment indicated that a tertiary personality variable, sometimes called psychological wellbeing, is the primary cause of happiness and greater generosity.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the average and distributional effects of school decentralization on educational quality in Argentina and found that decentralization had an overall positive impact on student test scores.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the hypothesis that municipalities aligned with upper-tier grantor governments (i.e., controlled by the same party) will receive more grants than those that are unaligned.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004, and find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the twentieth century.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ the classical libertarian criterion put forth by John Stuart Mill, who wrote the state may not legitimately constrain any citizen's freedom of action except to prevent harm to others.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of income inequality on generalized trust was examined using individual panel data from Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy, and they found that differences in disposable income, and especially differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust.

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TL;DR: The authors explored the effects of fiscal policy changes on private consumption in recessions and expansions and found that in the presence of binding liquidity constraints on households, fiscal policy is more effective in boosting private consumption than in expansions.

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TL;DR: The results suggest that parental generosity towards charitable organizations might reinforce government policies, such as tax incentives aimed at encouraging voluntary transfers, that are designed to undo government transfer policy.