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Unselfish? : understanding the role of altruism, empathy, and beliefs in volunteering commitment
Veludo-de-Oliveira, Tania Modesto; Pallister, John G.; … - In: Journal of nonprofit & public sector marketing 27 (2015) 4, pp. 373-396
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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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Pro-social behaviours : between altruism and self-interest
Diacon, Paula-Elena - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius / Oeconomica 10 (2014) 5, pp. 68-80
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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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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives
Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2009
colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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Incentives and the sorting of altruistic agents into street-level bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010
-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …
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Optimal education with mobile capital : An OLG approach
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2000
The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations economies with intergenerational transfers carried out in the form of bequest and investment in human capital. We examine in competitive equilibrium the optimal provision of education with and without capital markets integration....
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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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The welfare state redistribution and the economy : reciprocal altruism, consumer rivalry and second best
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2004
Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...
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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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