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Human Behavior and New Mobility Trends in the United States, Europe, and China

Cohen, Kathleen - 2019

New mobility trends such as shared mobility, autonomous vehicles, and mobility as a service are poised to disrupt the way the world moves. Since transport behavior is rooted in human behavior, how these trends are adopted will be influenced by behavioral preferences as well as cultural trends....

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Generosity across contexts

Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015

Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...

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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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A competitive equilibrium for a warm glow economy

Allouch, Nizar - 2009

Despite a widespread interest in the warm glow model [Andreoni (1989,1990)], surprisingly most attention focused on the voluntary contribution equilibrium of the model, and only very little attention has been devoted to the competitive equilibrium. In this paper, we introduce the notion of...

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Is altruism bad for cooperation?

Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008

embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …

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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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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 …

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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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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012

altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

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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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