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Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the dynamics of the private provision of a public good that requires both capacity buildup and ongoing operating costs. We show that setting a time limit for the collection of contributions dedicated to capacity buildup minimizes the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the...

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Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction

Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...

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Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi-level selection models. It has also been shown that cooperation can evolve as a costly signal of an unobservable...

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert; Tabasso, Domenico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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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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The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism

Holford, Angus J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...

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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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