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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004
instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing controls on individual fixed effects, we find strong evidence of altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076542
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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma
Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002
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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Two-sided altruism, Lindahl Equilibrium, and Pareto Optimality in Overlapping Generations Models
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996
, recasting it into a Lindahl equilibrium framework. It has been shown that altruism towards parents provides an alternative … a sufficiently strong altruism towards parents can change a Pareto inefficient Samuelsonian economy with negative … proposes an ethical principle to supplement the equilibrium theory for guiding agents in their choice of the degree of altruism …
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What do gifts buy? A model of philanthropy and tithing based on prestige and warm glow.
Harbaugh, William T. - EconWPA - 1996
Charities publicize the donations they receive, generally according to dollar categories rather than the exact amount. Donors in turn tend to give the minimum amount necessary to get into a category. These facts suggest that donors have a taste for having their donations made public. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125886
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The nature of human altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
of society are centred around issues of altruism and selfishness. Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is … altruists to defect. Current gene-based evolutionary theories cannot explain important patterns of human altruism, pointing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408232
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Motives for investment in human capital of children: evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data
Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - EconWPA - 1998
the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield … favors the second model of reciprocity with two-sided altruism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408378
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Do Parents Help More their Less Well-Off Children? Evidence from a Sample of Migrants to France
Wolff, Francois-Charles; Spilerman, Seymour; … - EconWPA - 2005
explained either by altruism or by an exchange motive. Though unequal sharing is expected under both hypotheses, under altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413268
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Samaritans, Rotten Kids and Policy Conditionality
Federico, Giulio - EconWPA - 2004
Donors who try to impose policy conditionality on countries receiving their aid commonly face conflicting incentives between using aid to induce income-increasing reforms and using aid to assist low-income countries: this conflict can lead to a time-consistency problem.This paper offers a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556024
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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118826
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556001