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different degrees of altruism. -- dictator game ; exit option ; generosity ; occupational differences …
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different degrees of altruism …
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In this paper, we attempt to shed light on whether Japanese households are rational or if their behavior is influenced by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility,...
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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 empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...
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and explains why equal bequests to children whose earnings differ, and parental altruism toward these children, are not … mutually exclusive. -- parental altruism ; equal bequests …
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The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that bequests tend to be equal … implication. It has therefore been inferred that the motive underlying inter-vivos transfers is not parental altruism. In this … the child whose earnings are higher. We show that rather than being orthogonal to parental altruism, counter …
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We investigate the effects of altruism on migrants' decisions to send money home and on their households' decisions to … invest or to consume those remittances. Previous studies have devoted extensive attention to migrants' altruism toward … recipients and little to recipients' altruism toward migrants. We find that the migrant sends larger remittances home when he …
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Recent evidence suggests that nudges, i.e. alterations in the decisional context, can have large effects on decisions and can improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment that was designed to evaluate not only the effectiveness of a default...
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