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influences of altruism and bravery in the evolution of heroism. Our study found that females do prefer risk-prone brave males to … factor influencing female choice of short-term partners, long-term partners, and male friends, with altruism playing a lesser … part in their choice. Altruism was deemed important in long-term relationships and friendships, but for short-term liaisons …
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Resource transfers among households have received considerable interest among economists in recent years. Two of the main reasons for the surge of interest in household transfers are the information on human nature conveyed by transfer behavior and the implication on income redistribution policy...
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Two books edited by members of the MacArthur Norms and Preferences Network (an interdisciplinary group, mainly anthropologists and economists) are reviewed here. These books in large part reflect a renewed interest in group selectionthat has occurred among these researchers: they promote the...
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altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …
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across individuals. In the research reported here, we examine two models of heterogeneous utility, linear-altruism and …
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We analyze the role of 'the' utility discount rate and its implications to generation-specific and societal altruism … have to be distinguished: An (inverse) altruism-parameter and a social discount rate. High levels of the altruism … well as altruism-models and, additionally, the altruism-parameter has to be infinitely high. This shows clearly that the …
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. Parental and spousal transfers are motivated both by altruism and by a desire to use the transfers to impart specific values or … behaviors to the recipient. When altruistic transfers predominate and the altruism is not completely reciprocated by the …
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This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public economics. The first essay assesses the effect of government spending on charitable donations to environmental causes. Using a theoretical model, I solve for changes in private donations due to increased...
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The literature on economic growth and development has focused considerable attention on questions of risk management and the possibility of multiple equilibria associated with poverty traps. We use herd history data collected among pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth...
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