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Household Consumption at Retirement : A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data
Moreau, Nicolas - 2013
Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a...
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Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania
Seebens, Holger - 2009
This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...
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Temporal Discounting in Later Life
Kulati, Ellam; Myck, Michal; Pasini, Giacomo - 2022
We explore intertemporal decision-making in later life by looking at temporal preference heterogeneity among older individuals. Using choice tasks responses from Poland collected as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we elicit individual time preferences...
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behavior
Lacetera, Nicola - 2009
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a "standard" way; offering donors economic...
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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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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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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2013
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2021
Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with "medals" when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their donations...
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Motivating Altruism : A Field Study
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2021
This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...
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