Why Doesn't The US Have a European-Style Welfare State?

On time and money donations

“…While we accept that, especially in the U.S., both government and charities behaviour can have a sizeable impact on time and money donations for the presence of widespread tax incentives, in this paper we follow a "spare change" approach to giving, and claim that -at least in Europe, as in other countries where tax incentives are less important -choices are primarily driven by individual preferences and attitudes 1 . Coherently, in the next section, we develop a general theoretical framework for understanding charitable giving, enriching the standard model of labour supply, and derive some testable predictions on individual behaviour.…”

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“…8 Fractionalization measures constructed from these sources are closely related, as they are based on very similar country source data. 9 Our data includes 1055 major linguistic groups for 201 countries or dependencies.…”

Reforming Welfare States

“…An inverse in terms of terminology, yet parallel concept is 'fatalism', being used by D'Orlando, This is certainly in line with the notion of Alesina, Glaeser, and Sacerdote (2001) that people with a strong belief that the main cause of high income is pure luck are more favorable toward state redistribution. Tabellini (2008) and Williamson and Kerekes (2011) argue that people who feel that individual choices determine their economic success, i.e.…”