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Verified Trust: Reciprocity, Altruism and Noise in Trust Games

Brülhart, Marius; Usunier, Jean-Claude - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

distinct and economically relevant component of individual preferences alongside selfishness and altruism. This recognition is … power of trust as a determinant of those decisions, suggesting that altruism may explain much of what ‘looks like’ trust … protocols and framing. Therefore, we propose discriminatory tests for altruism and trust that can be based on within …

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Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance

Kaarboe, Oddvar Martin; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is verifiable (dimension 1) and one dimension is not verifiable (dimension 2). We show that the power of the incentive scheme...

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Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

Rotemberg, Julio J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as …

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What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms

Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as 'consumption' vs. 'investment' good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across workers....

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Are the Welfare State and Distribution Really that Bad for the Economy? Effects of Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Suppose an altruistic person - A - is willing to transfer resources to a second person - B - if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents’ point of view. This is the Samaritan’s dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Incentives and Prosocial Behaviour

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for …

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Donations

Buraschi, Andrea; Cornelli, Francesca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …

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Fiscal Policy with Agents Differing in Altruism and in Ability

Michel, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

social security system and inheritance taxation) in an overlapping generations model with perfect altruism. It generalizes … productivity and altruism. Within such a model wealth is entirely held in the steady-state by the families with the highest degree … of altruism. Under plausible assumptions both public debt and social security are neutral à la Ricardo, while increasing …

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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