). The proposer may be altruistic towards the responder either out of a genuine desire to make her happy or out of guilt. The … responder derives disutility from apparent acts of altruism motivated by guilt because she considers them to be insincere. She …’s prosocial behavior. I consider two recent formulations of endogenous guilt: simple guilt and guilt from blame. These …

Parties in a bargaining situation may perceive guilt, a utility loss caused by receiving the larger share that is … problem for self-interested bargainers to a game with equally patient bargainers that exhibit a similar degree of guilt. The … bargaining parties still reach agreement in the first period. If guilt is strong, they split the bargaining surplus equally. In …

being worse off and guilt if being better off, but they still reach agreement in the first period under complete information …. If the perceived guilt is strong, then the inequality-averse bargainers split the bargaining surplus equally regardless … of their degree of envy. If guilt is weak, then the agreed split is tilted away from the Rubinstein division towards a …

depending on whether preferences exhibit desert elation or desert guilt. Our notion of desert generalizes distributional concern … guilt generates a continuum of symmetric equilibria. Equilibrium effort can lie above or below the level in the absence of … desert, so desert guilt generates behavior consistent with both positive and negative reciprocity and may underpin social …

asymmetric information. I show that the `shame' of accepting a possible bribe can screen for reciprocation inducing `guilt'. An …

this, the fact is also that, this ideological empowerment has not greatly been translated into economic and political … empowerment in terms of access to land, assets, credit, information, knowledge etc. Hence, the need of the hour is to promote more … such empowerment in the institutional levels. This will brighten their access to new work avenues in agriculture in the …

Five Year Plan, the Paper has not given enough focus on women’s empowerment issues in the country. The present paper …

Empowerment of the poor entails three basic inter-linked dimensions – generation of employment (and income), reduction … take the poor to a new domain of economic empowerment and social upliftment. Microcredit, which synergies the thrift and …

This paper investigates the interactions between gender, social capital and empowerment in the rural areas of northern … Ethiopia. We define empowerment narrowly as the power of households to make important decisions that change their course of … full control. A multinomial logit model is used to analyze empowerment levels of the rural households, first for the full …