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Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium
Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Meghir, Costas; … - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013
This paper compares partial and general equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving...
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Gifts, Lies and Bequests
Balestrino, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2000
Recent empirical work on intergenerational transfers has shown that: i) parents prefer to transfer resources to their children using bequests rather than inter vivos transfers (gifts), and ii) bequests tend to be divided equally, while gifts tend to be directed towards the less well-off...
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Why Do People Leave Bequests? For Love or Self-Interest? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans
Horioka, Charles Yuji - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
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Altruism and Informal Care for Dementia
Basu, Rashmita; Rosenman, Robert E - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 2 (2014) 1, pp. 70-82
on the role of altruism. Assuming that the total care provided is an unobserved mix of informal and formal care, we use a … latent class model to test if direct altruism increases the probability that informal care is included in the care plan … of having only informal care. The direct altruism has a positive and significant marginal effect on increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010748365
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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …
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Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters
Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - In: Experimental Economics 17 (2014) 1, pp. 154-172
We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for competition, altruism and risk. For … competitiveness, we explore two different tasks that differ in associated stereotypes. We find no gender difference in competitiveness … a mathematical task. This gender gap diminishes and becomes non-significant when we control for actual performance …
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Altruism and Gender in the Trust Game
Innocenti, Alessandro; Pazienza, Maria Grazia - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2006
This paper analyses gender differences in the trust game. Our experiment implements the triadic design proposed by Cox … preferences. We observe that women exhibit a higher degree of altruism than men for both trust and trustworthiness but relatively …
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Which is the fair sex? : Gender differences in altruism
Andreoni, J.; Vesterlund, L. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1998
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Sincere Giving and Shame in a Dictator Game
PETIT, Emmanuel; Anna TCHERKASSOF (Laboratoire … - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et …; … - 2012
Our experiment aims at examining the impact of induced shame on altruism in a dictator game context with exit option …
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Gender and Competition in Adolescence: Task Matter
Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for competition, altruism and risk. For … competitiveness, we explore two different tasks that differ in associated stereotypes. We find no gender difference in competitiveness … a mathematical task. This gender gap diminishes and becomes non-significant when we control for actual performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914358