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The Effect of Neighbourhood Diversity on Volunteering: Evidence from New Zealand

Clark, Jeremy; Kim, Bonggeun - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009

An empirical literature has found that neighborhood heterogeneity lowers people's likelihood of contributing to public goods. We show that the estimated effect of any concave neighborhood characteristic on behavior may be biased when “large” rather than “small” neighborhoods are used....

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Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania

Nerman, Måns - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

This study uses detailed household-level data to investigate income and activity diversification among households in rural Tanzania. Unlike previous research on diversification, I explicitly evalutate marginal returns within different activities, aiming to assess whether households are able to...

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Equalization of paid working hours in the dual-earner household: Does it increase women’s double burden?

Ericson, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

By using a sample of Swedish dual-earner households, this paper investigates how a transfer of time spent on paid work from the man to the woman influences their allocation of unpaid household work. It is found that their total time engaged in household work decreases. This result suggests that...

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"Household specialisation and gender equality in transition. Paid and unpaid work of women and men in Soviet and post-Soviet Taganrog"

Katz, Katarina; Sand, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Using unique survey data from the Russian industrial city Taganrog in 1989 and 1998, we analyse changes in the gender division of labour among gainfully employed women and men, pre- and post-transition. In Soviet Taganrog, dual earner families predominated, but nevertheless men were usually...

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The Wealth Paradox Revisited: Credit Market Imperfections and Child Labor

Congdon Fors, Heather - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

We revisit the model of child labor in a peasant household presented in Bhalotra and Heady (2003), and demonstrate that the e¤ect of credit market imperfections on child labor di¤ers between households that save and households that borrow. This in turn is important for the interpretation of...

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Child Labor: A Review of Recent Theory and Evidence with Policy Implications

Congdon Fors, Heather - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their atten- tion to the question of why children work. The purpose of this paper is to review some of the more recent theoretical and empirical research into the topic of child labor, and to illustrate the fact that no one factor on its...

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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...

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Altruism and Career Concerns

Shchetinin, Oleg - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent’s motivation in the career concerns model. I show that career … concerns incentive is lessened by altruism. As a consequence, altruism can decrease effort, though conventional wisdom suggests … interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The paper also studies the effect of altruism on wage. Interestingly, the …

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Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?

Mellström, Carl; Johannesson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

In his seminal 1970 book, The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss argued that monetary compensation for donating blood might crowd out the supply of blood donors. To test this claim we carry out a field experiment with three different treatments. In the first treatment subjects are given the...

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Compensatory inter vivos gifts

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2000

Empirical studies of intergenerational transfers usually find that bequests are equally divided among heirs while inter vivos gifts tend to be compensatory. Using the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we find that only 4% of parents who give, divide their gifts equally...

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