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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 … remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …
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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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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …
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This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...
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This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on …
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