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We develop a revealed preference approach to analyze non-unitary con- sumption models with intrahousehold allocations deviating from the cooper- ative (or Pareto e¢ cient) solution. At a theoretical level, we establish re- vealed preference conditions of household consumption models with...
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We present a household consumption model that accounts for caring house- hold members, while allowing for noncooperative behavior in decisions on pub- lic goods. The intrahousehold consumption outcome critically depends on the degree of caring between the household members. By varying the degree...
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We examine the combined effects of popularity and feelings of being important to reaching a goal by testing how people react to situations in which their own behavior is pivotal or not, as well as the popularity of the action. We conduct a laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the...
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We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
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Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative...
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Abstract: This paper studies the strategies employed by Catholic and Protestant nonprofit hospitals in Germany and traces them back to the theological foundations of those religions, which shape managers' values. We find that Catholic nonprofit hospitals follow a strategy of horizontal...
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rationally with each other. By comparing the success of players with different preferences, we investigate whether evolution …
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insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan …. Our analysis shows that, in the case of Japan, if parents are eligible for public LTCI benefits, their children will be … less likely to be their primary caregiver and that this, in turn, will reduce their children's perceived likelihood of …
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Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these … transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, the fundamental prediction of the … if parents use observations on the current incomes of children to update their expectations about future incomes. This …
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family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …
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