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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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Are Americans and Indians more altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? : evidence from a new international survey of bequest plans
Horioka, Charles - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...
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