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The social cost of contacts : theory and evidence for the COVID-19

Quaas, Martin F.; Meya, Jasper; Schenk, Hanna; Bos, Björn - 2020

survey data on social distancing and impure altruism from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The optimal policy reduces …

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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...

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Intergenerational Altruism and the Environment

Jouvet, Pierre-Andre; Michel, Philippe; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - 2001

intergenerational degree of altruism. Despite individuals altruism, the competitive equilibrium is not optimal. We thus study the social …

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Two-Sided Altruism, Lindahl Equilibrium, and Pareto Optimality in Overlapping Generations Models

Raut, Lakshmi K. - 2005

This paper extends the Samuelsonian overlapping generations general equilibrium framework to encompass a variety of altruistic preferences by recasting it into a Lindahl equilibrium framework. The First and the Second Welfare theorems hold for Lindahl equilibrium with respect to the Malinvaud...

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Altruistic Foreign Aid and Climate Change Mitigation

Goussebaïle, Arnaud; Bommier, Antoine; Goerger, Amélie; … - 2022

level of altruism and specific timing, but a global coalition is not necessary. We also show that the developed country may …

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Two-sided altruism, Lindahl Equilibrium, and Pareto Optimality in Overlapping Generations Models

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

, recasting it into a Lindahl equilibrium framework. It has been shown that altruism towards parents provides an alternative … a sufficiently strong altruism towards parents can change a Pareto inefficient Samuelsonian economy with negative … proposes an ethical principle to supplement the equilibrium theory for guiding agents in their choice of the degree of altruism …

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The Effect of Traffic Safety Laws and Obesity Rates on Living Organ Donations

Fernandez, Jose; Stohr, Lisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper uses variation in traffic safety laws and obesity rates to identify substitution patterns between living and cadaveric kidney donors. Using panel data from 1988-2008, we find that a 1% decrease in the supply of cadaveric donors per 100,000 increases the supply of living donors per...

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Do Parents Help More their Less Well-Off Children? Evidence from a Sample of Migrants to France

Wolff, Francois-Charles; Spilerman, Seymour; … - EconWPA - 2005

explained either by altruism or by an exchange motive. Though unequal sharing is expected under both hypotheses, under altruism …

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The Long-Run Impact on Population and Income of Open Access to Land in a Model with Parental Altruism

Harford, Jon D. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 4, pp. 419-429

Steady state levels of population and per capita income are examined using a Becker-Barro (1988) style of model of an economy with identical altruistic parents bearing costly children who receive bequests of capital and land. Inspired by the work of North (1981) and others, the problem of open...

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Group Selection: The quest for social preferences

Salomonsson, Marcus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2009

This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.

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