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Chapter 2 The Empirical Analysis of Transfer Motives
Schokkaert, Erik - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 127-181). 2006
The empirical economic literature covers many different forms of pro-social behaviour going from anonymous charitable contributions to caring for an ageing parent or buying Christmas gifts. The chapter focuses on the meta-questions concerning the motivations underlying this behaviour. While the...
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The power of words: A model of honesty and fairness
López-Pérez, Raúl - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 642-658
We develop a game-theoretical model of honesty and fairness to study cooperation in social dilemma games with communication. It is based on two key intuitions. First, players suffer a utility cost if they break norms of honesty and fairness, and this cost is highest if most others comply with...
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Laws and Norms
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors...
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Trust issues: Evidence on the intergenerational trust transmission among children of immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 175-196
This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying children of immigrants in 29 European … countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother's side, and the transmission is … significantly stronger than on the father's side. The transmission is stronger in high trust countries. Building trust in high trust …
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Social capital and health: Evidence that ancestral trust promotes health among children of immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - In: Economics & Human Biology 15 (2014) C, pp. 165-186
This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive …
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359908
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Resisting Moral Wiggle Room: How Robust Is Reciprocal Behavior?
Jo?l J. van der Weele; Kulisa, Julija; Kosfeld, Michael; … - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 256-64
We provide the second mover in a trust game and a moonlighting game with an excuse for not reciprocating. While this …
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Chapter 9 The Economics of Human Relationships
Sacco, Pier Luigi; Vanin, Paolo; Zamagni, Stefano - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 695-730). 2006
Behind my reciprocation of a friend's gift may lie both instrumental reasons (I expect further future gifts) and communicative reasons (I want to establish or confirm a friendship per se ). In a theory of rational individual action, such communicative reasons can be incorporated as an argument...
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Chapter 7 The Formation of Social Preferences: Some Lessons from Psychology and Biology
Lvy-Garboua, Louis; Meidinger, Claude; Rapoport, Benot - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 545-613). 2006
The goal of this paper is to draw some lessons for economic theory from research in psychology, social psychology and, more briefly, in biology, which purports to explain the formation of social preferences. We elicit the basic mechanisms whereby a variety of social preferences are determined in...
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