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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries
Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J.; Tausch, Arno - 2007
-being, family and peer relationships, behaviours and risks and subjective well-being. Each of the components is generated from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268545
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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009
This paper builds on the assumption that OECD countries are (or will soon be) taking actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also get involved in the cooperative effort to reduce GHG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266005
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Noncooperative support of public norm enforcement in large societies
Falkinger, Josef - 2004
In small groups norm enforcement is provided by mutual punishment and reward. In large societies we have enforcement institutions. This paper shows how such institutions can emerge as a decentralized equilibrium. In a first stage, individuals invest in a public enforcement technology. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261113
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Caste and punishment: the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement
Hoff, Karla Ruth; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - 2009
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269625
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The link between the intrinsic motivation to comply and compliance behavior: A critical appraisal of existing evidence
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269887
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The interaction of legal and social norm enforcement
Kube, Sebastian; Traxler, Christian - 2010
Although legal sanctions are often non-deterrent, we frequently observe compliance with 'mild laws'. A possible explanation is that the incentives to comply are shaped not only by legal, but also by social sanctions. This paper employs a novel experimental approach to study the link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270519
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Understanding compulsory schooling legislation: a formal model and implications for empirical analysis
Gradstein, Mark; Justman, Moshe - 2009
individuals disciplined by social norms, optimizing their voting decisions and the school attendance of their children. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271270
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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294905
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Asymmetric obligations
Riedel, Nadine; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2011
We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding deterrent incentives. To implement such expressive law' we introduce different levels of very weakly incentivized, symmetric and asymmetric minimum contribution levels (obligations)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304714