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Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Bargaining with Altruism

Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism … in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper … shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …

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Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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The Nexus between Long-term Care Insurance, Formal Care, Informal Care, and Bequests : The Case of Japan

Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Tang, Xueli - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nexus between long-term care insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and...

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Locus of Control and Prosocial Behavior

Andor, Mark Andreas; Cox, James C.; Gerster, Andreas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

one's own contributions (impure altruism) and others contributions (pure altruism). Using multiple data sets from Germany …

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Household Saving in Japan : The Past, Present, and Future

Horioka, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper explores the determinants of the level of, and trends over time in, Japan's household saving rate, with emphasis on the impact of the age structure of the population, and makes projections about future trends therein. The paper finds that Japan's household saving rate has not always...

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Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States

Haws, Adrian; Just, David; Price, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We link census records for millions of farm children to identify owner-operators of the family farm in adulthood, providing the first population-level evidence on intergenerational farm transfers. Using our panel of U.S. census data from 1900 to 1940, our analysis supports the primogeniture...

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The Impact of Intergenerational Transfers on the Distribution of Wealth : An International Comparison

Horioka, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In this paper, I analyze detailed data on intergenerational transfers in 4 countries (China, India, Japan, and the United States) from the "Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and Satisfaction (JHPS-CPS)" which has been conducted by the Institute of Social and Economic Research...

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Do the Retired Elderly in Europe Decumulate Their Wealth? The Importance of Bequest Motives, Precautionary Saving, Public Pensions, and Homeownership

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we use micro data on a large number of European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize our main findings, we find that less than half of the...

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Microgiving with Digital Platforms

Jiang, Xiheng; Xing, Jianwei; Xu, Jintao; Zou, Eric Yongchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Microgiving, a new form of digital fundraising, operates by soliciting minuscule, recurring donations from large numbers of potential donors. We evaluate a charity subscription program operated by Alibaba, China's largest retail platform, which allows sellers to pledge a tiny portion of a...

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