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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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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144543
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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136921
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136991
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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137194
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Capital Markets Integration, Growth and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Analysis
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous
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