We model the determinants of donations made to UK overseas development charities using panel data on charities’ donation income covering a 25 year period. The paper starts by reviewing relevant theory and previous empirical work on donations to UK charities before outlining a framework in which donations are a function of fundraising, government grants, total household income, inequality in hou...

It has long been anticipated that 2014 would be the year in which most major elements of the Patient ProtectionandAffordableCareActof2010 (ACA)wouldbe implemented.1 Yet even after surviving legislative, judicial, and electoral challenges, what the law actually will accomplish is uncertain. A major reason is the prominent rolegiven to the statesover the implementationof the ACA.2,3 State flexibi...

Leslie McGranahan is a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and an associate fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. The author would like to thank Bill Testa, David Marshall, and Helen Koshy for comments and guidance. In October 2001, the state governors sent a letter to the U.S. Senate concerning the Senate's proposed stimulus package. The governors so...

Using data from the World Values Survey and national-level indicators for 24 modern democracies, we assess the influence of social class and economic inequality on preferences for government responsibility. We improve on previous research by using multilevel models that account for differences in attitudes both within (i.e., over time) and across countries. Our findings are consistent with the ...

We use US county level data from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. Increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively related to economic growth. We find no evidence that government is more efficient at lower levels. While we cannot separate out the productive and red...

This study was conducted to understand food acquisition practices from social networks and its relationship with household food security. In-depth interviews and a survey on food security were conducted with twenty-nine mothers and one father in metropolitan areas of South Korea. Many families acquired food from their extended families, mainly participants' mothers. Between low-income and non-l...

Establishing a uniform 15% VAT rate for every good and service subject to this tax would generate additional fiscal resources of, at least, 81.2 billion pesos. The approximate cost of granting an exact compensation for the first three quartiles of the income distribution (in case of considering this as target population) for the impact of such measure—under the pessimistic assumption that 75% o...

We explore whether the decision to evade federal personal income taxes depends on the taxpayer’s level of approval of government. We first demonstrate using survey data the positive association between political alignment with the current president and the respondent’s trust in the administration and support for government taxation and spending. We then show using IRS tax return data and county...