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Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers?
Jacobsen, Karin; Eika, Kari H.; Helland, Leif; Lind, Jo … - 2011
different degrees of altruism. -- dictator game ; exit option ; generosity ; occupational differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307605
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252667
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It hurts to ask
Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382050
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The optimal size for a minority
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2001
We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401110
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Giving in dictator games : regard for others or regard by others?
Koch, Alexander K. (contributor);  … - 2005
motivated, as asserted by models of other-regarding preferences. -- dictator game ; altruism ; social preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039648
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An experimental investigation of intrinsic motivations for giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2011
intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to … these two estimates to quantify the portion of giving in T3 due to pure altruism and find it to be between 20% and 26% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127031
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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Incentives and the sorting of altruistic agents into street-level bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha (contributor);  … - 2008
-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often … experience an overload of clients. -- Street-level bureaucracy ; sorting ; altruism ; personnel policy ; pay-for-performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778977
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510510
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755326