Similar Search Results

Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247963

Fertility, Migration, and Altruism

Berman, Eli - 2000

intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471230

The ABCs of Charitable Solicitation

Meer, Jonathan - 2009

A substantial experimental literature suggests that a personal solicitation is an effective way to induce people to make charitable donations. We examine whether this result generalizes to a non-experimental setting. Specifically, we estimate the effect of a marginal personal solicitation using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463612

Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Alumni Giving

Meer, Jonathan - 2007

teenagers do not. The evidence is strongly consistent with the child-cycle pattern. Thus, while altruism drives some giving, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465501

Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid

Meer, Jonathan - 2012

Our main findings are: 1) Individuals who took out student loans are less likely to make a gift, other things being the same. We conjecture that this phenomenon is caused by an "annoyance effect" -- alumni resent the fact that they are burdened with loans. 2) Scholarship aid reduces the size of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460798

It Hurts To Ask

Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388842

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model

Berman, Eli - 2008

Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464922

Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456472