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of a second reason: that the stretegic response of the charity will be to pull back on its fundraising efforts after … receiving a grant. We develop a theoretical model to show a charity that chooses its level of fundraising efforts strategically … will reduce fundraising in response to government grants. We then analyze data on tax returns of 474 social services …
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A preference for negative reciprocity is an important part of the human emotional repertoire. We model its role in sustaining cooperative behavior but highlight an intrinsic free-rider problem: the fitness benefits of negative reciprocity are dispersed throughout the entire group, but the...
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sometimes carried out long after both victim and perpetrator have left the game. Without this special structure, altruism may in …
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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...
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In the presence of two-sided altruism, i.e., when parents and children care about each other’s utility, increases in …
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We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual’s behavior is aimed at reaching optimal level of arousal of neural system and optimal level of domination in social ranking.
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How should benefit-cost analysis account for the value that benevolent individuals place on other people's pleasure from public goods? When adding up the benefits to be compared with costs, should we sum the private valuations, the altruistic valuations, or something else? This paper proposes a...
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This paper models aid agencies as financial intermediaries that do not make a financial return to depositors, since the depositors' concern is to transfer resources to investor-beneficiaries. This leads to a significant problem of verification of the agencies' activities. One solution to this...
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This paper shows that altruism may be beneficial in bargaining when there is competition for bargaining partners. In a …. However, this advantage is eroded as the discount factor increases, and if players are perfectly patient altruism and spite …
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, 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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