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Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...

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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

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Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households

Akresh, Richard; Chen, Joyce J.; Moore, Charity - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to …

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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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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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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …

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Altruism in Society: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters

Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected …; and (iv) an age effect, with mature-aged people eliciting a higher degree of altruism. …

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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...

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Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace

Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we … develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other … that altruism undermines the credibility of a threat of dis- missal but strengthens the credibility of a bonus. Among …

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A Theory of Child Adoption

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

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