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X-WR-CALNAME:PIPE* Workshop:  Nicolas Duquette\, USC
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DESCRIPTION:Nicolas Duquette is an assistant professor at the USC Sol Price
  School of Public Policy.  He completed his PhD in economics from the Univ
 ersity of Michigan in 2014. Duquette's research is in public finance and e
 conomic history\, with particular interest in the historical development o
 f taxation and spending policy and the private nonprofit sector.\n\nInequa
 lity\, Social Distance\, and Giving\n\nThis paper demonstrates that econom
 ic inequality has a negative\, causal effect on prosocial behavior\, speci
 fically\, charitable giving. Standard theories predict that greater inequa
 lity increases giving\, though income tax return data suggest the opposite
  may be true. We develop a new theory which\, incorporating insights from 
 behavioral eco- nomics and social psychology\, predicts when greater inequ
 ality will lower charitable giving. We test the theory in an experiment on
  donations to a real-world charity. By randomizing the income distribution
 \, we identify the effect of inequality on giving behavior. Consistent wit
 h our model\, heightened inequality causes total giving to fall. Policy ag
 endas that rely on charitable giving and other voluntary\, prosocial behav
 iors to mitigate income and wealth inequality are likely to fail.\n\n \n\n
 *Political Institutions and Political Economy
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LOCATION:Lewis Hall (RGL)\, 103
SUMMARY:PIPE* Workshop:  Nicolas Duquette\, USC
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CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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