Search Results - subject:"altruism"

Heger, Stephanie A.; Slonim, Robert - 2022

.g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism "now" and … show that giving “now” causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving "later"; that is, altruism begets altruism …

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Why do parents under invest in their children's education? : evidence from China

Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022

In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...

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Cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism

Nesje, Frikk - 2022

cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism, saving for one’s descendants benefits present members of other dynasties. These …

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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods

Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022

theory of revealed altruism comes closest to explaining our results. …

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Continuous-time speed for discrete-time models : a Markov-chain approximation method

Bakota, Ivo; Kredler, Matthias - 2022 - This version: May, 2022

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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...

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