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Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance. Using data from six biennial waves of the Health and Retirement Study 1992–2002, we estimate grouped tobit-type latent variable models with multi-level error...
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altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
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colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
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What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …
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-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …
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The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous
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Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who …, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we … experience with the remainder due to unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender log wage gap is due …
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our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially …
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