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Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

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Parenting with style: altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014

parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian altruism and …

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Generosity across contexts

Weber, Roberto A.; Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

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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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012

altruism towards children. They can affect their children’s choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

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On altruism and remittances

Weber, Roberto A.; Antoniades, Alexis; Seshan, Ganesh; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and …

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Willingness-to-pay Against Dementia: Effects of Altruism Between Patients and Their Spouse Caregivers

Koenig, Markus; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004

-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than the conventional one-way) altruism. Methods …

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Happiness Functions with Preference Interdependence and Heterogeneity: The Case of Altruism within the Family

Bruhin, Adrian; Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

This study investigates the prevalence and extent of altruism by examining the relationship between parents' and their …

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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity - Evidence and Economic Applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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