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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139713
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154985
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051795
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046242
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Intertemporal Altruism
Chopra, Felix; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Falk, Armin; … - 2021
Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others – it is consequence-dated – or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...
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Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids
Cremer, Helmuth - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076808
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew - 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/10013080136
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children : Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier Arturo; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2021
achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317066