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Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy : The Italian Experience
Pastore, Francesco - 2010
The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d'intesa...
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...
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Altruism or Diminishing Marginal Utility?
Gauriot, Romain - 2018
's common restrictions on the curvature of the decision-makers utility function can dramatically bias the altruism parameter. We … show that this is particularly problematic when comparing altruism between groups with well-documented differences in risk …
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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies
Canta, Chiara - 2018
We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We … while children's altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric …
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Moral Nimby-Ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada
Lacetera, Nicola - 2018
The growing demand for plasma, especially for the manufacture of therapeutic products, prompts discussions on the merits of different procurement systems. We conducted a randomized survey experiment with a representative sample of 826 Canadian residents to assess attitudes toward legalizing...
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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence
Falk, Armin - 2015
, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates …
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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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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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Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India
Maitra, Pushkar - 2016
Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present paper examines the causal effect of gender in private school choice. We argue that the gender of the child is potentially endogenous in India because parents continue to have...
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The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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