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The possibility that individuals may derive utility from the mere fact of holding wealth has long been recognized. A simple intertemporal model featuring utility from accumulation is used here to examine consumption and savings, the choice between inter vivos gifts and bequests (both to...
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We examine the combined effects of popularity and feelings of being important to reaching a goal by testing how people react to situations in which their own behavior is pivotal or not, as well as the popularity of the action. We conduct a laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the...
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one's own contributions (impure altruism) and others contributions (pure altruism). Using multiple data sets from Germany …
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theories regarding the determination of intergenerational transfers. In this paper, we develop a theory that accounts for this … theory can also explain the norm of unigeniture, which prevails in other societies …
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-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …This paper develops a theory of intergenerational exchange for generations that are either selfish or have non …
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competitive market in rescues. The model explicitly incorporates the possibility of rescues motivated by altruism. We then apply … main consistent with our economic model when altruism is taken into account, as are the differences between the maritime …
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would be much less imposing were it not for altruism, a factor ignored in most discussion of externalities. Altruism may be … of altruism, the costs of rescue, and the benefits to the rescuee. Although the general legal rule is not to reward the … rescuer (nor to impose liability), the law recognizes the fragility of altruism and entitles the rescuer to a reward in …
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.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards …
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one possible explanation: that individual aversion to inequality--both envy and altruism--lead to systematic differences … workers in the sector. We also present structural estimates of the influence of envy and altruism on sector-specific trade … policy preferences. Our estimates indicate that both envy and altruism influence support for trade protection in the United …
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plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism …
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