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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… with a central theme on Hispanic inflows and public goods provision. The first paper investigates how Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for …
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A Multi-Group Public Goods Game Experiment
… extension of the standard finitely repeated public goods game. Our results from four treatments suggest that the multi-group setting indeed raises overall cooperation and dampens the impact of free-riders.</p>
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Essays in the Theory of Public Goods
Finally, a tax competition model is proposed to study the impact of Pigouvian pollution taxes on the location and output decisions of freely mobile firms. In the model, capital is characterized as either polluting or nonpolluting and then regional planners are permitted to independently select tax …
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Justice, Sanctioning, and Retaliation In Public Goods Dilemmas
<p>The problem of collective action occurs when individual and collective interests are at odds. Actors in social dilemmas are typically confronted with two choices: to cooperate with group interests, often at some expense of self-interest, or to free-ride off others' cooperation. A dilemma thus …
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Post-Soviet ethnic politics and public goods provision
What explains the pattern of public goods distribution across ethnic groups in the states of the former Soviet Union? In this dissertation, I seek to demonstrate how the unique pattern of nation-state formation in the former Soviet states interacts with other institutional legacies in a manner that …
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Economic Experiments on Conflict, Information Acquisition, and Public Goods
… Partial Willful Ignorance and Group Identity in Public Goods Games,” focuses on the effect of information acquisition on contributions to public goods. I also explore human conflict in the third chapter, “Risk Preferences and Reform Paths: Experimental Evidence.”</p> <p>In my first chapter, …
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Existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria with public goods
We examine the existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria under non-convex technology. We formalize marginal cost prices in terms of Clarke's normal cone.
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Three essays in the economics of local public goods
… three empirical essays on the economics of local public goods. Chapter One examines the marginal propensity of local governments to spend out of lump- sum grant income. Economic theory predicts that this marginal propensity will equal the marginal propensity to spend on public goods out of private …
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The Effect of Governmental Structure on The Provision of Public Goods
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804148.pdf: 3291471 bytes, checksum: bbde3249305baaa2fd9d86e29dee4226 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Competition between species can drive public-goods cooperation within a species
Costly cooperative strategies are vulnerable to exploitation by cheats. Microbial studies have suggested that cooperation can be maintained in nature by mechanisms such as reciprocity, spatial structure and multi-level selection. So far, however, almost all laboratory experiments aimed at …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… economic informality, political behavior, and public goods provision. In three papers, it explores how seemingly nonpolitical everyday social institutions and collective action rooted in economic informality help extend the reach of the state and advance public policies in developing societies. …
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Role of Social Preferences and Coalitions in a Public Goods Game
The boon of public goods to a society is its inclusive nature where no individual can be restricted from enjoying its fruits. However, this very feature generates proclivity among individuals in the society to escape paying their share towards creation of the public good, which is known as …
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Essays on Transatlantic Differences in Taxation, Redistribution and Provision of Public Goods
… levels of taxation, redistribution, provision of public goods, and perception of fairness in income inequality. The first chapter concentrates on the differences between the U.S. and Scandinavia in higher education, and asks how it is possible that the U.S. has considerably more unequal higher …
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
… ethnic voting than economic incentives like public goods or economic clientelism. Economic patronage is found to be only relevant in peaceful societies with little modern history of ethnic violence, and towards building cross-cutting ethnic coalitions. The findings are moderated by ethnic …
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Essays on Leadership Selection and Public Goods Provision in Self-Help Organizations
… relationship between leadership selection and public goods provision in self-help organizations. Leadership selection is defined as the rules for selecting leaders, as well as the factors that determine the quality of the leadership class. Self-help organizations are defined as relatively …
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The group-based binding pledge as a solution to public goods problems
… are worse off than if all choose to cooperate. A public goods dilemma is a special case of a social dilemma in which people must contribute resources to provide a public good. Communication, especially face-to-face discussion, has been shown to be effective in facilitating cooperation in such …
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Provision of public goods and health outcomes during political transition in Nigeria
… democratic regime results in higher provision of public goods and a reduction in health inequality, given the prevalence of political capture due to lack of credible electoral competition in Nigeria. The thesis questions the assumption that transition from a military dictatorship to relatively …
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Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
… covered the direct exchange of private goods for political support between voters and politicians. Yet, patronage does not end with the distribution of food, medicine or public employment. In poor informal settlements, access to a sanitation system or clean drinking water is often …
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Municipal strategies for affordable housing : incenting an exacting public goods from private developers
… In response, it looks at an array of public-sector municipal policy tools ranging from incentives to exactions. In particular, it focuses on tools that are able to leverage hot real estate markets, such as inclusionary zoning, linkages, and tax abatements. A framework for understanding …
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