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Wir analysieren im Rahmen der neoklassischen Theorie die Rolle der Nutzendiskontierungsrate als Egoismus- bzw … intergenerationellen Gleichbehandlungspostulat des Utilitarismus Genüge getan. In der Altruismus-Modellierung ergibt sich das methodische … Problem der mehrfachen Berücksichtigung des selben Effektes. Altruismus ist um so stärker ausgeprägt, je geringer die …
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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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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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occurred among these researchers: they promote the theory that human cooperative behavior evolved via selective processes which … theory, an impressive collection of cross-cultural data are presented which suggest that participants in experimental … group selection. In this review, problems with these data and with the theory are discussed. On the data side, it is argued …
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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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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...
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