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Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
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decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment …
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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 … will result in a reduction of average welfare and an increase in the income inequality between workers and retired people/individuals. …
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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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dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
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This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
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This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and … explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two …
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works in an individual decision experiment. Subjects are faced with a sequential search problem. After extensive practice …
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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