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you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …
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to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …
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empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …
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The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate tocharitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last resultgenerally derives from the focus on mean amount given...
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the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
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A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
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of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and …
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