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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2007
achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807361
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269624
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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274945
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325392
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Public- and private-good values of statistical lives: Results from a combined choice-experiment and contongent-valuation survey
Strand, Jon - 2001
We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related illnesses and traffic accidents. 1000 randomly chosen individuals in Norway...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284325
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When are preferences consistent? The effects of task familiarity and contextual cues on revealed and stated preferences
Schläpfer, Felix; Fischhoff, Baruch - 2010
Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315548
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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods
Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Anna - 2007
This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315585
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007
altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325476
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807205
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008
embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …
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