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The Price of a Price: On the Crowding out of Social Norms
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence that providing financial incentives to agents to perform certain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other types of motivations to undertake these actions. We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136944
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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137115
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Trust and Economic Growth
Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136946
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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137251
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Trade, Trust and Transaction Cost
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Mosch, Robert H.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be attributed to … the lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137372
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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144428
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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on charitable giving. Households are randomly divided into three treatments, distinguished by the possibility for respondents to donate cash, by debit card, or both. I find that due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144452
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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136921
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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties
Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
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