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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Miller, John H.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2011
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations, while generosity in non-laboratory contexts often involves the allocation of consumption goods or non-monetary harm. Psychological evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts. We compare generosity...
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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321811
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Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
studies also document gender differences in a variety of important preference dimensions, such as risk-taking, competition and … preferences requires an improved understanding. We conduct an experiment in which individuals in small laboratory "societies … and that this difference persists with experience and in environments with varying degrees of risk. This gender voting gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164121
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Comparative statics of altruism amd spite
Milchtaich, Igal - 2008
each other's payoff. A positive, negative or zero weight represents altruism, spite or complete selfishness, respectively …) payoff can only increase or remain unchanged with an increasing degree of altruism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336031
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Higher education and mortality: Legacies of an authoritarian college contraction
González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; … - 2023
We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480591
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Driving Forces of Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of informal sanctions by a large number of experiments.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005846433
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The equal division puzzle - empirical evidence on intergenerational transfers in Sweden
Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study to what extent parents divide their estates unequally between their children. Unequal sharing of parental transfers is, for example, a necessary condition for theories of altruistic (dynastic) behavior to hold. I use a new data set based on the estate...
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Tax Avoidance and Intra-Family Transfers
Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - 2005
To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration (unification) of the different transfers taxes affect tax avoidance? These issues are important for families and their welfare, as well as for governments and their possibilities of...
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Sennt, Julien - 2021
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
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Happiness functions with preference interdependence and heterogeneity: The case of altruism within the family
Bruhin, Adrian; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007
This study investigates the prevalence and extent of altruism by examining the relationship between parents' and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315538