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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291831
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325736
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319306
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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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Essays on demography, social mobility, and the development of the welfare state: A historical perspective
Boberg-Fazlic, Nina - 2014
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325639
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Couple's behaviour in the Brazilian labour market: The influence of social security and individual characteristics on married individuals' labour supply decisions
Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; de Souza, Laetícia Rodrigues - 2013
retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal … examine how social security financial incentives and personal characteristics affects one's own and spouses' retirement … decisions. Our results suggested that couples synchronize retirement and that they respond similarly to their own …
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Pension reform and labor market incentives
Fisher, Walter H.; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2007
retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294044
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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306211