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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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Which is the fair sex? : Gender differences in altruism

Andreoni, J.; Vesterlund, L. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1998

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Long-Term Care, Altruism and Socialization

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2011

-run prevalence of family altruism in the population. That evolutionary effect questions the desirability of the LTC public provision … altruistic and non-altruistic agents, and where the transmission of (non) altruism takes place through a socialization process à …

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Individual preferences and the distribution of wealth

Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - HAL - 2005

degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of family and non family altruism. Short-term impatience and non family … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … with the degree of family altruism (wealth intended for bequests). The way preferences are measured allows to get rid of …

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Do tropical typhoons smash community ties? Theory and evidence from Vietnam

Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2010

Natural disasters trigger large inequalities between affected households and the rest of the community. The extent to which villages compensate for these shocks allegedly depends on the pressure imposed by the group of needy families. I model two major threats to redistribution - (i) the...

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Mortality, family and lifestyles

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

While there is a large empirical literature on the intergenerational transmission of health and survival outcomes in relation to lifestyles, little theoretical work exists on the long-run prevalence of (un)healthy lifestyles induced by mortality patterns. To examine that issue, this paper...

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Préferences psychologiques et nouvelle économie politique

Billot, Antoine; Marlats, Chantal - HAL - 2009

First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … collective impact of altruism, social loyalty, intrinsic reciprocity and so forth . …

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Altruism in Networks

Bourlès, Renaud; Bramoullé, Yann - HAL - 2013

We provide the first theoretical analysis of altruism in networks. Agents are embedded in a fixed, weighted network and …

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Capital accumulation, welfare and the emergence of pension fund activism

Belan, Pascal; Michel, Philippe; Wigniolle, Bertrand - HAL - 2007

This paper presents an overlapping generations model with altruistic consumers, in which pension funds, by holding a signi...cant share of capital assets, produce non competitive behavior. We study the consequences of such behavior on capital accumulation and welfare in the long run when...

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Does imperfect competition foster capital accumulation in a developing economy ?

Belan, Pascal; Michel, Philippe; Wigniolle, Bertrand - HAL - 2005

We analyze the relationship between imperfect competition and capital accumulation in a dual economy, with traditional and modern sectors and two types of agents (workers and capitalists). Workers allocate their time endowment between the two sectors. Capitalistsaccumulate wealth in the modern...

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