Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 253
Cover Image
Social Interactions in Pandemics : Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
Alfaro, Laura - 2020
In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481717
Cover Image
Conveniently Upset : Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others
Tella, Rafael Di - 2010
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of the recipient's tokens,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462011
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Philanthropy and public policy
Dickinson, Frank G. (contributor) - 1962
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000664750
Cover Image
Bequests as Signals : An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2000
In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multichild families divide their estates exactly equally among their children. In contrast, intra vivos gifts are usually unequal. These findings challenge the validity of existing theories regarding the determination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470959
Cover Image
Testing Parental Altruism : Implications of a Dynamic Model
McGarry, Kathleen - 2000
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 altruistic model has been decisively rejected in empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471176
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods : A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange
Rangel, Antonio - 2000
-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471256
Cover Image
Are Americans More Altruistic than the Japanese? A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2000
.S., (2) that the altruism model is far more applicable in the U.S. than it is in Japan but that it is not the dominant model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471313
Cover Image
Preferences for Giving Versus Preferences for Redistribution
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Strulov-Shlain, Avner; Taubinsky, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report the results of an online experiment studying preferences for giving and preferences for group-wide redistribution in small (4-person) and large (200-person) groups. We find that the desire to engage in voluntary giving decreases significantly with group size. However, voting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660053