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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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An Analysis of Food Aid and Altruism
Tcha, MoonJoong; Lio, Fiona - Department of Economics, Business School - 2002
This study constructs an altruism model of food aid. A theoretical model is constructed and shows that how each country …'s altruism. Analyses of data using donations through the World Food Program indicate that an empirical analysis of food donation …, which does not incorporate altruism, may provide misinformation regarding the effect of relevant variables, especially the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730821
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Ecotourism in Costa Rica: an Economic Framework of Analysis.
Courvisanos, J.; Jain, A. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 2000
Costa Rica is a small Central American nation that has gained an international reputation as a leader in environmental conservation. This has formed the base for its highly successful small-scale ecotourism industry. However, there are threats from high rates of deforestation and expanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776757
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Biodiversity and Agriculture: Implications for Conservation and Development.
Srivastava, J.; Smith, N.J.H.; Forno, D. - World Bank Group - 1996
Both indigenous knowledge and scientific research are needed to meet the challenge of intensifying agriculture in an environment-friendly manner and understanding how the landscape mosaic of cultural habitats could contribute to conservation of biodiversity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780245
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392620
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398913
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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/10010510510
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372976
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326408
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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