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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents
Cremer, Helmuth - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
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Family Social Norms and Child Labor
Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2022
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
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Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility : An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences
Candeal Haro, Juan Carlos; Indurain, E.; Molina, Jose … - 2021
It is shown that any completely preordered topological real algebra admits a continuous utility representation which is an algebra-homomorphism (i.e., it is linear and multiplicative). As an application of this result, we provide an algebraic characterization of the projective (dictatorial)...
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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced Versus Decision Utility
Akay, Alpaslan - 2017
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. Interpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Dur, Robert - 2009
colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution Under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …
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Waiting to Give
Craig, Ashley - 2014
We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...
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