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Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving

Knutsson, Mikael; Martinsson, Peter; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for bottles and cans with an option of donating the returned deposit to charity...

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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture: Public goods games and lonely elephants

Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010

While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North America, it has not been extensively used in other contexts such as Turkey. This project seeks to rectify that and explore how Turkish university students informally self...

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Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012

The hold-up problem has played a central role in the study of firm boundaries, which is a fundamental element of the economic study of organizations. We study a previously unex-plored mechanism by which integration between two parties could resolve the problem. Based on the social identity...

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Financing public education when altruistic agents have retirement concerns

Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona; … - 2011

Human capital and, therefore, education have an impact on the societys future welfare. In this paper we study the connection between the voters support to public education and the retirement concerns. We show that voters anticipate the positive effect of education on future pensions. The support...

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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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The role of unions in an endogenous growth model with human capital

Parreno, Jose Maria Ramos; Losada, Fernando Sanchez - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 1999

altruism and human capital. This relationship depends on the interaction between the technology in the sector that produces …

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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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BEQUESTS, GIFTS, AND EDUCATION Swedish evidence on parents’ transfer behavior

Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

We study the motives behind parents’ transfers to their children, and the relationship between tangible transfers and educational investments. Another issue is the channels parents choose for tangible transfers. Do they use bequests and inter vivos gifts as substitutes or complements? We use a...

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