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We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider "a family tradition of bequeathing" as a channel through which the intention to bequeath is molded by and is positively correlated with the experience of inheriting. We use data from the...
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I study attitudes towards risk taking in cases where a person relates to others positively, namely altruistically. This study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will this person's risk-taking behavior differ if the...
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In a haystack-type representation of a heterogeneous population that is evolving according to a payoff structure of a prisoner's dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of swappingʺ individuals between heterogeneous groups of constant size after a random allocation fills the haystacks,...
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Die Studie untersucht die gemeinsame Rolle von Altruismus und Ungeduld sowie den Einfluss der Evolution während der …, wie Konsumpfade von Dynastien mit Altruismus und Ungeduld verknüpft sind, und folgern daraus, dass länger lebende … Dynastien einen höheren Grad an Altruismus und ein geringeres Ausmaß an Ungeduld aufweisen als kurzlebige Dynastien. …
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A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban...
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