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Corneo, Giacomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Nowadays, people in OECD countries spend about as much time watching television as earning a living. In this Paper I report a puzzling fact about those time uses: television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the...

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Offerta di attivita` gratuita in Italia: un’analisi micro-econometrica

Fiorillo, Damiano - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 117 (2009) 1, pp. 23-59

This paper studies the factors that determine unpaid labour in a voluntary organization, a political party and a trade union. Official data has been taken from Indagine Multiscopo sulla Famiglia, Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana (1997), of the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). In...

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The Solaria syndrome: Social capital in a growing hyper-technological economy

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 3, pp. 802-814

We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. We start from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods....

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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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Chapter 58 Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions

Cox, Donald; Fafchamps, Marcel - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3711-3784). 2007

What do we know about the role of extended families and kinship networks for redistributing resources? What gaps in our knowledge most need to be filled? How can we best organize current work and identify priorities for future research? These questions are important for several reasons:...

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On the Origin of the Family

Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...

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Who uses tips as a reward for service and when? An examination of potential moderators of the service–tipping relationship

Lynn, Michael; Jabbour, Patrick; Kim, Woo Gon - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 1, pp. 90-103

Consumers in many countries often give voluntary payments of money (tips) to the workers who have served them. These tips are supposed to be a reward for service and research indicates that they do increase with customers’ perceptions of service quality. This paper contributes to the...

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Do relational goods raise well-being? : an econometric analysis

Rasciute, Simona; Downward, Paul; Greene, William H. - In: Eastern economic journal 43 (2017) 4, pp. 563-579

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Did the Decline in Social Connections Depress Americans’ Happiness?

Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Pugno, Maurizio - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 3, pp. 1033-1059

During the last 30 years US citizens experienced, on average, a decline in reported happiness, social connections, and … confidence in institutions. We show that a remarkable portion of the decrease in happiness is predicted by the decline in social … connections and confidence in institutions. We carry out our investigation in three steps. First, we run a happiness regression …

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Relational Goods and the Well-being of People Working in Italian Social Cooperatives

Nappo, Nunzia - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 118 (2010) 4, pp. 449-474

The paper investigates the role of relational goods in individual satisfaction with life. Individual data provided by the Italian Survey on Social Cooperatives (ICSI, 2007) are used in the econometric analysis, carried out on a sample of 4134 individuals working in Italian social cooperatives....

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