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Recent efforts to endogenize technological change in climate policy models demonstrate the importance of accounting for the opportunity cost of climate R&D investments. Because the social returns to R&D investments are typically higher than the social returns to other types of investment, any...
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voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as votes for third …
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and shows that the insistence by workers that firms act with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage … responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that …
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We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
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achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in quot;value of lifequot; type of framework. We are able to … lifequot; and on intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis …
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We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents care about their child but …
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limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism … impure altruism compared with pure altruism, we show that, in general, it can be either more or less. Second, we propose a … heterogeneity based on park and volunteer hour types, are theoretically consistent with the mainstay model of impure altruism …
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are characterized by multifaceted social preferences, encompassing reciprocity, altruism, and inequality aversion …
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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 growing concentration of resources among the rich has re-ignited a discussion about whether the rich are more selfish than others. While many recent studies show the rich behaving less pro-socially, endogeneity and selection problems prevent safe inferences about differences in social...
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