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Unmarried adolescents and filial assistance in eighteenth-century Flanders
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Service was one of the main characteristics of the European Marriage Pattern in pre-industrial western Europe. During this stage of the life cycle adolescents could acquire the material assets and skills that were required to marry and start an independent household. Whilst in service, servants...
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Technical efficiency of rice producing households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
Huynh-Truong, Huy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Technical Efficiency (TE) is defined as an estimation of the ability of a household to produce the maximum output with the given inputs. It is usually estimated by using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Data collected from 261 rice farming households in...
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In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China
Song, Lina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619664
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Power, hierarchy and social preferences
Bosco, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
degree of altruism. In particular I experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way … was able to reduce the degree of altruism of a group of experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and …. It was found that the introduction of a hierarchical structure generated a significant decrease in the rate of altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836078
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Public Spending and Volunteering: "The Big Society", Crowding Out, and Volunteering Capital.
Bartels, Koen; Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The current British Government's "Big Society" plan is based on the idea that granting more freedom to local communities and volunteers will compensate for a withdrawal of public agencies and spending. This idea is grounded on a widely held belief about the relationship between government and...
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Structural modeling of altruistic giving
Breitmoser, Yves - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper analyzes econometric models of altruistic giving in dictator and public goods games. Using existing data sets, I evaluate internal and external validity of "atheoretic" regression models as well as structural models of random behavior, random coefficients, and random utility,...
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Too smart to be selfish? Measures of intelligence, social preferences, and consistency
Chen, Chia-Ching; Chiu, I-Ming; Smith, John; Yamada, Tetsuji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between strongly incentivized measures of intelligence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360254
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Are Turkish Enterpreneurs Altrustic? Evidence From Western Black Sea Region
Sarıbaş, Hakan; Yıldırım, Halil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
selected and surveyed about four aspects of altruism: altruistic love, altruistic values, altruistic behaviors and empathy. We … entrepreneurs have a significant amount of altruism, and that they think that government decision makers (politicians and high …
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Kantian Altruism in Economics and Ibn Khaldun
Sarıbaş, Hakan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this article, the concept of Kantian Altruism in the writings of Ibn Khaldun is examined. Government efficiency … improves when Kantian Altruism becomes the characteristic of public decision makers. It is also argued that Kantian Altruism … coincides with the altruism in the writings of Ibn Khaldun. …
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Identification of Altruism among Team Members: Empirical Evidence from the Classroom and Laboratory
Griffiths, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
guarantee reciprocity, we see that there is still significant evidence of altruism, which we then confirm using laboratory …
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