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Protestant Ethic, Status Seeking, and Economic Growth

Rauscher, Michael - 1997

Commodities do not only serve the purpose of satisfying direct needs in the production and con-sumption process. Some of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper addresses the question under which circum-stances...

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Charitable giving among females and males: An empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis

Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012

We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...

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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? An experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2012

This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...

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Targeted Advertising and Social Status

Vikander, Nick - 2011

This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising allows consumers both to buy different varieties and to...

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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011

Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...

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Investment opportunities in the source country and temporary migration

Djajic, Slobodan - 2009

This paper examines how attractive investment opportunities available to temporary migrants in their country of origin affect their saving behavior and the optimal duration of stay abroad. The model predicts an inverse U-shaped relationship between migration duration and the expected rate of...

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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador

Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012

of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

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Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth: Evidence From Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Yasar, Pinar - 2010

This study estimates a Keynesian simultaneous, dynamic macroeconometric model to investigate the impact of remittances … multipliers indicate that impact of remittances on consumption, imports and income are all positive and reduce gradually while … due to remittances through the multiplier process. The remittances-induced output growth rate is highest during the early …

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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of … remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …

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The effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia

Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2012

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual …

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