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Monitoring and norms in sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a natural experiment

Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Vikström, Johan - 2008

We test if social work norms are important for work absence due to self-perceived sick-ness. To this end, we use a randomized social experiment designed to estimate the effect of monitoring on work absence. The treated were exposed to less monitoring of their eligibility to use sickness...

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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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Precautionary Saving and Altruism

Nordblom, Katarina - 1997

that, with uncertain future income, altruism per se can induce time consistent, however, not necessarily ex ante efficient …

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Within-the-Family Education and its Impact on Equality

Nordblom, Katarina - 2001

This is a theoretical study of human-capital accumulation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...

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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...

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Negative Reciprocity: The Coevolution of Memes and Genes

Friedman, Daniel; Singh, Nirvikar - 2003

A preference for negative reciprocity is an important part of the human emotional repertoire. We model its role in sustaining cooperative behavior but highlight an intrinsic free-rider problem: the fitness benefits of negative reciprocity are dispersed throughout the entire group, but the...

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On altruism and remittances

Antoniades, Alexis; Seshan, Ganesh; Weber, Roberto; … - 2013

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and …

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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. …

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The economics of parenting

Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2019

Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices people make throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their discipline to understand what parents do and how parents' actions affect their children. In recent...

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