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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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Two-sided Altruism and Level of Development
Uruyos, Manachaya - 2019
Using 24 countries' data on the estimated degrees of filial and parental altruism, we examine the relationship between … the stages of economic development and degrees of altruism. We employ the ordinary least squares and two-stage least …
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Charitable giving and intermediation
Chlaß, Nadine; Gangadharan, Lata; Jones, Kristy - 2015
Charitable donations are often made through intermediaries who can fund themselves from these same donations. Donors who purchase charitable output through an intermediary incur a principal-agent problem with unobservable prices. We compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without...
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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
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Compensatory inter vivos gifts
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....
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The sustainability of the pay-as-you-go system with falling birth rates
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002
altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530593
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
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Exploitation, altruism, and social welfare : an economic exploration
Doepke, Matthias - 2013
minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …
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