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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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Variation in Risk Seeking Behavior in a Natural Experiment on Large Losses Induced by a Natural Disaster
Page, Lionel; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2012
is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556847
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877787
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877789
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877813
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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 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877949
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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015
-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210405
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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - CESifo - 2011
The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009221554