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One Chance in a Million : Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry

Bergstrom, Theodore C. - 2007

Transplants of donated stem cells save the lives of many patients with blood diseases. Donation is somewhat painful, but rarely has lasting adverse effects. Patients can accept transplants only from donors with compatible immune systems. Those lacking a sibling match must seek donations from the...

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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013

We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...

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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions

Blumkin, Tomer - 2007

provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re …

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Toward an Understanding of Why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Edwards, James; List, John A. - 2021

People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal … attention. For their part, economists have recently explored how communication affects empathy, altruism, and giving rates to …

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Moral NIMBY-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada

Lacetera, Nicola - 2018

The growing demand for plasma, especially for the manufacture of therapeutic products, creates an urgent need for a careful discussion on the relative merits of different procurement and allocation systems in a way that addresses the increasing demand while abiding by the prevailing moral values...

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Optimal Timing in Rotten Kid Families

Faria, João Ricardo - 2017

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that the optimal timing for the sequential-action game played by rotten kids and a parent depends crucially on whether the kids are homogeneous or heterogeneous. For homogeneous kids,...

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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2008

This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing 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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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation Under Different Assumptions on Altruism

Casarico, Alessandra - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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Optimum Taxation of Bequests in a Model with Initial Wealth

Brunner, Johann K. - 2010

external effect related to altruism is accounted for in the social objective …

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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2021

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

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