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Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 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...

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Bargaining with Altruism

Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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 bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …

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

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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The Nexus between Long-term Care Insurance, Formal Care, Informal Care, and Bequests : The Case of Japan

Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Tang, Xueli - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nexus between long-term care insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and...

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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development

Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...

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Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leaders, and Development in Origin Countries

Cabra-Ruiz, Nicolas; Rozo, Sandra V.; Sviatschi, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does forced displacement shape development in origin countries? We examine the case of Venezuela, where over seven million people have been forcibly displaced. Our study compares municipalities with different proportions of foreign-born populations before and after the international oil...

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Rebel Governance and Development : The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador

Bandiera, Antonella; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Jimenez, Juan … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does rebel governance affect long-term development? We investigate the economic, social, and political consequences of temporary territorial control by guerrillas during the Salvadoran Civil War. During this period, these guerrillas displaced state authorities and promoted the creation of...

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The Economics of Women's Rights

Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...

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Household Saving in Japan : The Past, Present, and Future

Horioka, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper explores the determinants of the level of, and trends over time in, Japan's household saving rate, with emphasis on the impact of the age structure of the population, and makes projections about future trends therein. The paper finds that Japan's household saving rate has not always...

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Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States

Haws, Adrian; Just, David; Price, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We link census records for millions of farm children to identify owner-operators of the family farm in adulthood, providing the first population-level evidence on intergenerational farm transfers. Using our panel of U.S. census data from 1900 to 1940, our analysis supports the primogeniture...

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