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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …
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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
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Econographics
Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018
We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....
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Dimensions of donation preferences : the structure of peer and income effects
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019
Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
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Heterogeneous bequests and social inequalities
Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Thai Ha Huy; Pakhnin, … - 2023
We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of … steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is positively related to both level of altruism and altruism …
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Who cares? : attitudes towards redistribution and fiscal austerity
Brown, Sarah; Kontonikas, Alexandros; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2021
: "altruism" and "appreciation". We test our theoretical model's predictions by matching attitudes reported in the British Social …
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017
-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …
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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis
Konrad, Kai A. - 2002
Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.
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