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Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2005

A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …

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Are Family Allowances and Fertility-related pensions Siamese Twins?

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2004

the number of children is generally preferable to family allowances because the latter creates a larger tax load on labor …This paper discusses alternative ways to deal with the positive externalities of having children in a pay …-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …

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A Collective Retirement Model : Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Michaud, P.C.; Vermeulen, F.M.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model.The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses leisure.Preferences and the intrahousehold bargaining process are identified by using panel data with couples and individuals who...

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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015

We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....

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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy

Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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Charity Auctions for the Happy Few

Bos, Olivier - CESifo - 2008

Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider...

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Social Preferences and Portfolio Choice

Riedl, Arno; Smeets, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We empirically investigate the effect of social preferences on portfolio choice. We use administrative investor data and link them to behavior in a controlled experiment and to survey responses. We show that social preferences rather than (biased) risk-return expectations are predictive for...

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Some Evolutionary Foundations for Price Level Rigidity

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2002

This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...

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Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh : State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

Using longitudinal data of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh, covering the time period 1982 – 2005, and exploiting dynamic panel data models, we analyze siblings’ death at infancy, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and a causal effect of death...

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