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The Seeds of Ideology : Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola - 2020
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare state, and that this had a long-lasting effect on the political ideology of US born individuals....
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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments
Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan Maria; Kranich, Laurence - 2021
In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317434
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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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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
Bauer, Michal - 2011
Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
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Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?
Jacobsen, Karin - 2011
different degrees of altruism …
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Altruism in Society : Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters
Mujcic, Redzo - 2013
We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected …; and (iv) an age effect, with mature-aged people eliciting a higher degree of altruism …
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Directed Giving : Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving
Tonin, Mirco - 2015
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 …
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Gender Differences in Altruism : Responses to a Natural Disaster
Lilley, Matthew - 2016
to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent … altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …
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Market Design for Altruistic Supply : Evidence from the Lab
Slonim, Robert - 2016
Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers' inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a...
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