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Altruistic economic behaviors and implicit worldviews

Lee, Sun Youn; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kwon, Hyeog Ug; Lim, … - 2014

Korea, Japan and the US. Altruism and intergenerational transfers have been widely studied in economics (Fehr and Schmidt …

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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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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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Gender differences in altruism : responses to a natural disaster

Lilley, Matthew; Slonim, Robert - 2016

to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent … altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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Samuelson's contributions to population theory and overlapping generations in economics

Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019

Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much of it was intended to illuminate issues of...

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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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