Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2006
Recognizing that individualism, or weak family ties, may be favorable to economic development, we ask how family ties … analyze how the equilibrium outcome depends on altruism and climate for ex ante identical individuals. We also consider (a …) coerced altruism, that is, situations where a social norm dictates how output be shared, (b) the effects of insurance markets …