Showing 51 - 60 of 32,581
-based representation in the usual exponential form corresponds to one-period 'altruism' towards one's future selves: the current self gives …) and Laibson (1997) correspond to quasi-exponential altruism towards one's future selves. For ß=1/2, the welfare weights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335002
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435146
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435150
prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430036
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543994
We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time … relate to altruism and to impatience and we reason that long-lived dynasties will be characterized by a higher degree of … altruism and a lower degree of impatience than short-lived dynasties. -- altruism ; impatience ; intergenerational transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724435
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370990
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370991
Warm-glow refers to other-serving behavior that is valuable for the actor per se, apart from its social implications. We provide axiomatic foundations for warm-glow by viewing it as a form of preference for larger choice sets driven by one's desire for freedom to act selfishly. Specifically, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391946
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a “social planner” or a “veil of ignorance” experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192931