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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …

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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …

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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...

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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Stith, Sarah S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...

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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...

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The Price of Warm Glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...

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Why Remit? The Case of Nicaragua

Naufal, George - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

behavior. I consider two general motivations for remitting: altruism and self-interest. Using a heteroskedastic Tobit with a …

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Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries

Molina, José Alberto; Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

main results show evidence of strong altruism effects, but these estimated effects differ across countries, differ between …

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