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The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor income (wage) taxes. We construct an environment in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this experimental framework to test whether a labor...
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when … from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely …
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Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …
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Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool … children with similar educational opportunities as children in native families. This paper examines whether the introduction of …
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data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …
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We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...
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In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...
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laboratory experiment to provide a test of such a connection. In small laboratory “societies,” people repeatedly vote for a …
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attributions of responsibility for neediness from other explanations. We implement our design in a lab experiment we conducted with …
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We conduct a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect …
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