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Stark, Oded; Nicinska, Anna - 2015

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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Can altruism lead to a willingness to take risks?

Stark, Oded - 2023

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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On the economics of others

Stark, Oded - 2014

We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism. Caring about how we fare in comparison with others who fare...

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Dynasties and destiny : on the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests

Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2001

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On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device

Stark, Oded (contributor); Behrens, Doris (contributor); … - 2008

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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Dynasties and destiny : on the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests

Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2001

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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Bargaining, altruism and demographic phenomena

Stark, Oded - 1984

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Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem

Stark, Oded - 2010

The naturalization of asylum seekers is modeled as an economic problem. In choosing their level of investment in host-country-specific human capital, asylum seekers take into consideration the probability of their being naturalized. The government of the host country chooses the probability of...

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Policy repercussions of "The new economics of the Brain Drain"

Stark, Oded - 2010

In this paper I delineate novel policy repercussions suggested by my research on "The New Economics of the Brain Drain". In section 1, I provide a succinct account of the model that inspires the derivation of several new policy implications. In sections 2 through 5, I present the policy...

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Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 1999

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