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From philanthropy to "altruism": incorporating unselfish behavior into economics, 1961-1975

Fontaine, Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

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Reluctant altruism and peer pressure in charitable giving

Reyniers, Diane; Bhalla, Richa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

, controlling for amount donated. These findings suggest reluctant altruism due to peer pressure in charitable giving. …

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The X-factor of charity: a critical analysis of celebrities' involvement in the 2010 Flemish and Dutch Haiti relief shows

Driessens, Olivier; Joye, Stijn; Biltereyst, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

have become indispensable for the charity industry. This has provoked both negative and positive appraisals, although the … providing a systematic analysis of the roles celebrities play in telethons, which we redefine as charity media events, allowing … analysis, we have analysed two charity media events following the 2010 Haitian earthquake. In general, four distinct roles have …

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The economics of non-governmental organisations

Scott, Colin; Hopkins, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisational comparative advantage of NGOs, and to develop a model which explains the set of circumstances uder which they emerge and dominate other types of firms. It is argued that the potential superiority of NGOs derives from two features: (1)...

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Not all incentives wash out the warm glow: the case of blood donation revisited

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …

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Digit ratio (2D:4D) and altruism: evidence from a large, multi-ethnic sample

Galizzi, Matteo M.; Nieboer, Jeroen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We look at the links between the Digit Ratio - the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger – for both right and left hands, and giving in a Dictator Game. Unlike previous studies with exclusively Caucasian subjects, we recruited a large, ethnically diverse...

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The magnitude and correlates of inter-vivos transfers in the UK

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Attitudes to Inheritances Survey to estimate the magnitude of and the factors that are correlated with private inter-household transfers from parents to their adult children in the UK. Our evidence suggests that inter vivos...

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Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

We analyse self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household … survey data. We test whether higher levels of satisfaction are associated with greater economic well-being. This hypothesis … divorced. There appears to be little correlation between happiness and either gender or education level. We find some evidence …

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Hooray for GDP!

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Should raising the growth rate of GDP per capita be a policy goal of governments in general, and of the British government in particular? Many people would say no, for the following reasons: 1) GDP is hopelessly flawed as a measure of welfare; 2) Growing GDP is pointless since most people don’t...

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Happy talk: mode of administration effects on subjective well-being

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on the measurement of subjective well-being (SWB) has escalated in recent years. This study contributes to the literature by examining how SWB reports differ by mode of survey administration. Using data from the 2011 Annual Population Survey in the UK, we find that individuals...

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