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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...
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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 …
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The Usual Suspects : Does Risk Tolerance, Altruism, and Health Predict the Response to Covid-19?
Sheth, Ketki - 2020
so. We find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health …
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Eliciting Preferences for Risk and Altruism : Experimental Evidence
Gauriot, Romain; Heger, Stephanie; Slonim, Robert - 2022
jointly elicit risk preferences and preferences for altruism. Consistent with theory, we find that the standard simplifying … assumptions about risk preferences lead to significantly biased estimates of altruism. This is particularly problematic when … comparing altruism across relevant sub-groups, such as gender and wealth, leading to possibly erroneous conclusions about which …
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Global Evidence on Misperceptions and Preferences for Redistribution
Feichtmayer, Jennifer Elena; Gründler, Klaus - 2021
Individuals often hold erroneous beliefs about their socio-economic status relative to others. We develop a new machine learning technique to measure these misperceptions and use large-scale international survey data to compute status misperception for 241,757 households from 97 countries (24...
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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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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …
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Public sector employees: Risk averse and altruistic?
Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; van … - 2012
We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use revealed rather than stated preferences data. Respondents of a large-scale survey were offered a...
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Putting risk in its proper place
Eeckhoudt, Louis; Schlesinger, Harris - 2005
This paper examines preferences towards particular classes of lottery pairs. We show how concepts such as prudence and temperance can be fully characterized by a preference relation over these lotteries. If preferences are defined in an expected-utility framework with differentiable utility, the...
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...
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