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Relative Risk Aversion: What Do We Know?

Meyer, Donald; Meyer, Jack - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 31 (2005) 3, pp. 243-262

The relative risk aversion measure that represents the risk preferences of a decision maker depends on the outcome variable that is used as the argument of the utility function, and on the way that outcome variable is defined or measured. In addition, the relationship between any two such...

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Why do children transfer to their parents? Evidence from South Korea

Park, Cheolsung - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 3, pp. 461-485

altruism is the dominant motive at the margin if parental income is low, but not so if parental income is high. I also find …

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Are children repaying parental loans? Evidence from Malaysia using matched child-parent pairs

Park, Cheolsung - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 2, pp. 243-263

altruism or intended to be repayments of implicit parental loans taken up by children for human capital investment. For the …

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Altruistic Bequests with Inherited Tastes

Jellal, Mohamed; Wolff, Francois-Charles - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 1 (2002) 2, pp. 95-113

This paper examines the altruistic model of bequest when a child inherits life standard aspirations from his parents. We prove that the impact of the aspiration effect on transfers can be positive or negative, depending on both the strength of inherited tastes and the coefficients of risk...

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Equity, international trade and climate policy

Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 2 (2002) 1, pp. 23-48

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Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk-Taking

David, Cesarini; Dawes, Christopher T.; Johannesson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

In this paper, we use the classical twin design to provide estimates of genetic and environmental influences on experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using standard methods from behavior genetics, we find strong prima facie evidence that these preferences are broadly heritable...

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Individual preferences and the distribution of wealth

Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - HAL - 2005

degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of family and non family altruism. Short-term impatience and non family … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … with the degree of family altruism (wealth intended for bequests). The way preferences are measured allows to get rid of …

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Altruistic bequests with inherited tastes

Jellal, Mohamed; wolff, François charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

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Equity, International Trade and Climate Policy

Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard S.J. - Forschungsstelle Nachhaltige Umweltentwicklung (ZMK), … - 2001

introduce compassion in a noncooperative setting. If observed development aid is a guide, international altruism is small and …

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Risk Aversion when Gains are Likely and Unlikely: Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Large Stakes

Blavatskyy, Pavlo; Pogrebna, Ganna - In: Theory and Decision 64 (2008) 2, pp. 395-420

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