Public goods provision, inequality and taxes
Public goods provision, inequality and taxes
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公共产品供给、不平等和税收
DOI：
10.1007/s10683-010-9268-y
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Neslihan Uler
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作者：
Neslihan Uler
再分配政策对自愿捐款的影响仍不清楚。虽然较高水平的再分配税收降低了自愿捐赠的价格，但它也通过减少收入不平等而改变了收入分配。本文提供了一个受控实验室实验来研究税率对公共产品供给的净影响。实验结果表明，虽然随着税前收入分配变得更加平等，参与者减少了自愿缴款，但他们通过税收增加了缴款。这些发现对政府有关私人提供公共产品的政策具有重要意义。
The impact of redistributive policies on voluntary contributions is still not well understood. While a higher level of redistributive taxation decreases the price of voluntary giving, it also changes the income distribution by decreasing income inequality. This paper provides a controlled laboratory experiment to investigate the net impact of the tax rate on public goods provision. The experimental findings show that while the participants decrease their voluntary contributions as the pre-tax income distribution becomes more equal, they increase their contributions with taxation. These findings have important implications for government policies regarding privately provided public goods.