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Does Society Need Altruists? Coevolution of General Trust and Social Intelligence

澁谷, 浩 - In: 商学討究 (Shogaku Tokyu) 64 (2013) 2/3, pp. 169-194

Most social scientists, especially economists, believe that altruists do not exist because they cannot survive exploitation by egoists. An agent-based model demonstrates, however, that altruists can survive natural selection if society comprises four types of individuals: altruists, reciprocal...

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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2014

We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker?s rotten kids mechan- ism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of e¢fficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...

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Means-tested long term care and family transfers

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2014

One of the pervasive problems with means-tested public long term care (LTC) programs is their inability to prevent individuals who could a¤ord private long term services from taking advantage of public care. They often manage to elude the means-test net through strategic impoverishment. We show...

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Egalitarianism and Altruism in Health: To What Extent Are They Related?

Abásolo, Ignacio; Tsuchiya, Aki - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2013

The theoretical constructs of egalitarianism and altruism are different from each other, yet there may be associations … between the two at the empirical level. This paper explores the empirical relationship between egalitarianism and altruism, in … model that explains the propensity of an individual to be egalitarian in terms of altruism and other background …

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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle in a Context-Rich Environment

grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012

giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that …

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Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle

grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012

the question, is giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artifact of experimentation? What is unique …

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Paying for Pollution? How General Equilibrium Effects Undermine the “Spare the Air” Program

Sexton, Steven - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 53 (2012) 4, pp. 553-575

Policy-makers have relied on non-coercive mechanisms to achieve socially preferred outcomes in a variety of contexts when prices fail to ration scarce resources. Amid heightened concern about environmental damage and climate change, public appeals for cooperation and pecuniary incentives are...

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The Importance of the Indirect Transfer Mechanism for Consumer Willingness to Pay for Fair Trade Products—Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 36 (2013) 4, pp. 369-387

A natural field experiment is conducted on the determinants of consumer’s willingness to pay for “fair trade” (FT) products. In four treatments, subjects are offered different choices in connection with a coffee purchase, such as buying regular coffee or FT coffee at a premium, regular...

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Do watching eyes affect charitable giving? Evidence from a field experiment

Ekström, Mathias - In: Experimental Economics 15 (2012) 3, pp. 530-546

The presence of implicit observation cues, such as picture of eyes, has been shown to increase generosity in dictator games, and cooperative behavior in field settings. I combine these approaches, by testing if a picture of watching eyes affects unconditional giving in a natural environment,...

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Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - In: Experimental Economics 17 (2014) 1, pp. 24-46

Other-regarding preferences are important for establishing and maintaining cooperative outcomes. In this paper, we study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Our subjects, aged 4–12 years, are classified into other-regarding types...

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