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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...

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Altruism and Career Concerns

Shchetinin, Oleg - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent’s motivation in the career concerns model. I show that career … concerns incentive is lessened by altruism. As a consequence, altruism can decrease effort, though conventional wisdom suggests … interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The paper also studies the effect of altruism on wage. Interestingly, the …

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Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?

Mellström, Carl; Johannesson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

In his seminal 1970 book, The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss argued that monetary compensation for donating blood might crowd out the supply of blood donors. To test this claim we carry out a field experiment with three different treatments. In the first treatment subjects are given the...

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Compensatory inter vivos gifts

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2000

Empirical studies of intergenerational transfers usually find that bequests are equally divided among heirs while inter vivos gifts tend to be compensatory. Using the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we find that only 4% of parents who give, divide their gifts equally...

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BEQUESTS, GIFTS, AND EDUCATION Swedish evidence on parents’ transfer behavior

Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

We study the motives behind parents’ transfers to their children, and the relationship between tangible transfers and educational investments. Another issue is the channels parents choose for tangible transfers. Do they use bequests and inter vivos gifts as substitutes or complements? We use a...

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Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers

Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration (unification) of the different transfers taxes affect tax avoidance? These issues are important for families and their welfare, as well as for governments and their possibilities of...

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Global environmental problems, efficiency and limited altruism

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

market may still undertake globally efficient abatement investments, given the existence of limited nonpaternalistic altruism …

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Keeping others in our mind or in our heart? Distribution games under cognitive load

Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Johansson, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

It has recently been argued that giving is spontaneous while greed is calculated (Rand et al. 2012). If greed is calculated we would expect that cognitive load, which is assumed to reduce the influence of cognitive processes, should affect greed. In this paper we study both charitable giving and...

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Natural Disasters and Government Turnover

Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

also drive government parties out of office? We study gov- ernment turnover in a global sample of more than 200 elections …

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Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents

Guzmán, Andrea; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the average behavior of others or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we...

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