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Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism
Nesje, Frikk - 2022
cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism, saving for one’s descendants benefits present members of other dynasties. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296272
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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving
Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022
We provide novel evidence on the linkages between capital taxation and charitable giving on three fronts. First, we use quasi-experimental variation in the annual Norwegian wealth tax to study the effect on how much households give. Inconsistent with the notion that households give more in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291832
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
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Noblesse oblige?: determinants of survival in a life and death situation
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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Surviving the Titanic disaster: economic, natural and social determinants
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264561
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Social relations and relational incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - 2012
this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282065
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Adermon, Adrian - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871027
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The Bonus-Income Donation Norm
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858205
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Altruism Begets Altruism
Heger, Stephanie; Slonim, Robert - 2022
Guided by Bem’s (1972) self-perception theory, we design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behaviour, e ….g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism “now” and … show that giving “now” causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving “later”; that is, altruism begets altruism …
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Morality, Altruism, and Occupation Choice : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …
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