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Ethnic Geography : Measurement and Evidence

Hodler, Roland - 2018

diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust …

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The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust - An Experimental Study

Greiner, Ben - 2008

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows … higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with … equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a treatment with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains …

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Social capital, trust and well-being in the evaluation of wealth

Hamilton, Kirk; Helliwell, John F.; Woolcock, Michael - 2016

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Trust and growth

Dincer, Oguzhan (contributor); Uslaner, Eric (contributor) - 2007

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What can happiness research tell us about altruism? : Evidence from the German socio-economic panel

Schwarze, Johannes (contributor); … - 2005

Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of measurement can be fruitfully applied to the study of interdependent utility in general, and...

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Happiness functions with preference interdependence and heterogeneity : the case of altruism within the family

Bruhin, Adrian (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2007

This study investigates the prevalence and extent of altruism by examining the relationship between parents' and their adult children's subjective well-being in a data set extracted from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In order to segregate the share of parents with altruistic preferences from...

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Parents' Desire to Make Equal Inter Vivos Transfers

Thoresen, Thor O. - 2008

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies to transfers of gifts inter vivos. We suggest that the equal division motive competes with traditional altruism: support to the child or the children with greatest needs. When...

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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving : Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2015

Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...

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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017

Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...

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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2014

We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size...

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