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donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to … volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity …. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to …
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This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
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A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is costly not only for the potential husband, but also for the woman, as it reduces the wealth of the...
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-utility constrained social optimum. Unexpectedly, numerical simulations show that this theory could account for the observed distribution …
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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …
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: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …
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This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The model...
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, we study whether trustees can signal their trustworthiness by giving to charity. Our results show that donors are indeed … generosity, such as investments in corporate social responsibility or donations to charity during a political campaign, can …
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This paper investigates whether the consumption of rich households provides a reference point in the consumption choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household data on food consumption, we estimate the Euler equation implied by a life-cycle model...
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that the presence of children has on the time devoted to elder care. We combine the approach of the Social Cognitive Theory … and a three-generation altruism model. Using the 2003 Spanish Time Use Survey (STUS), we confirm the "Demonstration Effect …
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