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Probabilities of consistent election outcomes with majorities based on difference in support
Diss, Mostapha; Pérez-Asurmendi, Patrizia - In: Group decision and negotiation 25 (2016) 5, pp. 967-994
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Are political and charitable giving substitutes? : evidence from the United States
Yildirim, Pinar; Simonov, Andrei; Petrova, Maria; … - 2021
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Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium
Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Meghir, Costas; … - 2018
choice and labor market outcomes. Driven by both altruism and paternalism, parents make transfers to their children which can …
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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...
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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2007
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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Will there be blood? Incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a standard way; offering donors economic...
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
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Fiscal incidence when both individual welfare and family structure matter: The case of subsidization of home-care for the elderly
Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - 2012
the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the …
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Why consumers pay voluntarily: Evidence from online music
Regner, Tobias - 2010
Customers at the online music label Magnatune can pay what they want for albums, as long as the payment is within a given price range ($5-$18). Magnatune recommends to pay $8, and on average customers paid $8.20 (Regner and Barria, 2009). We ran an online survey and collected responses from 227...
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Crowding-out and incentive effect of tax under the impure altruism model : empirical evidence from charitable contributions
Park, Ki-baeg - 1992
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