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Generosity Across Contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - CESifo - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory. Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - CESifo - 2003
with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit … people’s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766135
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Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - CESifo - 2015
-Nazi radio broadcast following Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor. During the consolidation of dictatorship, radio …
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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker’s rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva’s (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...
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Social Relations and Relational Incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - CESifo - 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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Low Altruism, Austerity, and Aversion to Default: Are Countries Converging to the Natural Debt Limit?
Bohn, Henning - CESifo - 2013
reflecting low altruism—a discount rate on children’s utility greater than the world interest rate—and I examine the implications … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …
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Provision of a Public Good with Altruistic Overlapping Generations and Many Tribes
Karp, Larry S. - CESifo - 2012
Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877869
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On Self-Interest and Greed
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2014
First the assumption of self-interest as applied in Economics is presented. Here we also discuss areas in which (many) people behave less self- but more other-regarding than traditional economic models assume. Then, greedy behaviour is considered as existing in the political and economic...
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