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Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms …
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Are Americans and Indians More Altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458506
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Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars
Alesina, Alberto - 2017
The increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. In order for the population to accept to fight and endure war, the government elites began to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455246
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Motivation and Incentives in Education : Evidence from a Summer Reading Experiment
Guryan, Jonathan - 2015
level of motivation to read. Elementary school students were mailed books weekly during the summer, mailed books and also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457748
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Small Victories : Creating Intrinsic Motivation in Savings and Debt Reduction
Brown, Alexander L. - 2014
Saving when faced with the immediate option to spend is an unpleasant but not conceptually difficult task. One popular approach contradicts traditional economic theory by suggesting that people in debt should pay off their debts from smallest size to largest regardless of interest rate, to...
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Testing Motives for Charitable Giving : A Revealed-Preference Methodology with Experimental Evidence
Deb, Rahul - 2012
consumption and donations among individuals. We also conduct an original experiment that enables nonparametric tests of many … donations yield greater explanatory power than the standard model of impure altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460630
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Monitoring, Motivation and Management : The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment
Nagin, Daniel - 2002
Economic models of incentives in employment relationships are based on a specific theory of motivation. Employees are … investigate the 'rational cheater model' using data from a double-blind field experiment that allows us to observe the effect of … experimentally-induced variations in monitoring on employee opportunism. The experiment is unique in that it occurs in the context of …
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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship
Hamilton, Barton Hughes - 2018
We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480659
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Tax Morale
Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - 2014
Standard economic models of tax compliance have focused on enforcement-driven compliance. Notably, tax administrators also tend to place a great deal of emphasis on the importance of improving "tax morale" by encouraging voluntary compliance, creating a culture of compliance, and changing social...
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A Field Experiment on Directed Giving at a Public University
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2014
pervasive in fundraising, yet little is known about its effectiveness. We conduct a field experiment at a public university in …
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