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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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Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices

Stark, Oded; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2018

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average...

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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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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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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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On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect

Cox, Donald (contributor); Stark, Oded (contributor) - 2004

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Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 1999

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On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say

Stark, Oded; Casarico, Alessandra; Devillanova, Carlo; … - 2011

This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much human capital to acquire depends, among other things, on the migration...

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