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Does voluntary risk taking affect solidarity? : experimental evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate; Wunsch, Conny - 2017

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …

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Risky choices and solidarity : why experimental design matters

Wunsch, Conny; Strobl, Renate - 2018

Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...

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Do markets erode social responsibility?

Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...

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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior

Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020

We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...

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Is social responsibility a normal good?

Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A. - 2018

We investigate whether growth in consumer income causes an increased willingness to pay to mitigate negative externalities from consumption. Correlational field evidence suggests a positive relationship between income and social responsibility. To investigate a causal link, we conduct a...

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Brothers in arms : an experiment on the alliance puzzle

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010

would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this possible solidarity among "brothers in arms" when fighting … against the external enemy. -- alliance ; conflict ; contest ; free-riding ; hold-up problem ; solidarity …

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Universal coverage on a budget : impacts on health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenditures in Thailand

Supon Limwattananon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2013

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...

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Transferable ageing provisions in individual health insurance contracts

Baumann, Florian; Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - 2004

We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used to smooth the premium profile. The stock of capital accumulated for each individual can be split into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance, where the latter would be transferable...

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The 2020 US presidential election and Trump's trade war

Lake, James; Nie, Jun - 2022

The trade war initiated by the Trump administration is the largest since the US imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in the 1930s and was still raging when he left office. We analyze how the trade war impacted the 2020 US Presidential election. Our results highlight the political salience of the...

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Retiree health insurance for public school employees : does it affect retirement?

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2013

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock" in the private sector. I use the introduction of...

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