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Wider boundaries : the welfare state and international remittances

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Batu, Michael - 2015

Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In addition, it is known that the welfare state, being an insurance or consumption-smoothing mechanism, reduces the negative welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a...

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Drawbridges down : altruism and immigration preferences

Hansen, Ole-Petter Moe; Legge, Stefan - 2016

This paper advances and empirically establishes the idea that altruism is an important determinant of individual …

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How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hassan, Sherif Maher - 2016

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances worldwide over the last three decades. The region has also had the highest non-oil external trade balance deficit among developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in...

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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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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

implications. In particular, we show that the rotten kids mechanism combined with a contribution game to a household public good … "linked" by the young spouses. Children contribute part of their time to a household (couple) public good and provide … wealth differences the mechanism has been supplemented by a (mandatory) transfer that brings them back into the relevant …

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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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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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