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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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Education and prosocial behavior : evidence from time use survey

Akar, Betul; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Okten, Cagla - 2019

We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours is the first paper that investigates the causal effect...

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Measuring social and externality benefits of in influenza vaccination

White, Corey D. - 2019

Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their …

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The impact of climate change on mortality in the United States : benefits and costs of adaptation

Deschênes, Olivier - 2022

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...

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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 …

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Be a good samaritan to a good samaritan : field evidence of interdependent other-regarding preferences in China

Chang, Simon; Dee, Thomas S.; Tse, Chun Wing; Yu, Li - 2015

We conducted large-scale lost letter experiments in Beijing, a megacity with more than 21 million residents, to test if the observed altruistic attribute of the letter recipient would induce more passersby to return the lost letters. The treatment letters were addressed to a nationally renowned...

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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 …

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Exploitation, altruism, and social welfare : an economic exploration

Doepke, Matthias - 2013

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the emergence of cooperative equilibria from passing and shooting

Askitas, Nikos - 2014

There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...

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