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The nature of human altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
Some of the most fundamental questions concerning our evolutionary origins, our social relations, and the organization of society are centred around issues of altruism and selfishness. Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is a powerful force and is unique in the animal world....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408232
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076936
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What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study
Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999
Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We investigate both the tradeoff the favored party makes between pursuing his strategic advantage and giving weight to other players' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556668
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561548
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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
others in the local residential cluster - enters the household’s utility function positively but that income of more distant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118826
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in $ parity, because they are linked to Euro. This is due to USA …'s approach to control other nations in the world,through unilateral Army power,tie up of domestic markets towards USA, and … Pumping wealth from developed nations. A Notional Balance sheet of USA, balances only with a Loss to the Assets(Debit). This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556940
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Trust among Strangers
Ho, Teck-Hua; Weigelt, Keith - EconWPA - 2005
The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an opportunity to appropriate these gains or be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407592
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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
Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...
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
Through an investigation of parental motives, this paper examines how parents decide on the allocation of their resources within the family when there are several offspring. From a theoretical viewpoint, inter vivos transfers may be explained either by altruism or by an exchange motive. Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413268
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Subgame perfect manipulation of children by overlapping generations of agents with two-sided altruism and endogenous fertility
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996
In this paper we consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and two-sided altruism and show the limitations of applying commonly used open loop Nash equilibrium in characterizing equilibrium transfers from parents to children in the form of bequest, and transfers from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076531