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Social Relations and Relational Incentives

Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …

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Parental altruism under imperfect information: theory and evidence

Villanueva, Ernesto - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

Understanding if altruism motivates intergenerational monetary transfers is crucial to assess the effectiveness of … public policies that redistribute income across generations. Previous works have rejected the altruism hypothesis. This paper … presents an altruism model that incorporates effort of the child and introduces imperfect information of parents about the …

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Fiscal policy, composition of intergenerational transfers, and income distribution

Alonso-Carrera, Jaime; Caballé, Jordi; Raurich, Xavier - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

In this paper, we characterize the relationship between the initial distribution of human capital and physical inheritances among individuals and the long-run distribution of these two variables. In a model with indivisible investment in education, we analyze how the initial distribution of...

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Leniency Bias in Long-Term Workplace Relationships

Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

altruism sometimes provides a net incentive to report performance truthfully, rather than to bias evaluations upward. The …

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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

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