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The Application of Social Marketing in Increasing the Supply of Blood from Young Donors, Non-Donors and Lapsesd-Donors

Healy, John; Murphy, Maurice - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2010

Blood donation is dependent on the goodwill of people, to voluntarily donate blood, without financial reward. There is a continuous need for new blood donors, because the demand for donor blood is increasing, whereas the supply of blood is declining. Only 3% of the eligible population in the...

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Just One Pint Saves Life: The Role of Social Marketing in Blood Donati on

Healy, John; Murphy, Maurice - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2010

increasing and it takes more and more effort to persuade people to become blood donors. An appeal to altruism alone is not …

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The Gift of Life: The Role of Social Marketing in Organ Donation

Murphy, Maurice; O'Sullivan, Ronan - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2010

The success of organ transplantation has led to the primary problem facing transplantation today: lack of sufficient organ donors. In the US, the number of individuals awaiting organ transplantation has been growing by 15% per year but the number of donors has only increased by approximately 5%....

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Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth

Golosov, Mikhail; Jones, Larry E.; Tertilt, Michèle - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2006

In this paper, we generalize the notion of Pareto-efficiency to make it applicable to environments with endogenous populations. Two efficiency concepts are proposed, P-efficiency and A-efficiency. The two concepts differ in how they treat potential agents that are not born. We show that these...

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A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Fertility

Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011

The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, and a positive relationship between income and longevity. This is puzzling for standard dynamic models. For instance, altruistic models that use the most standard preferences in macro --time separable...

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Can Wages Signal Kindness?

Arbak, Emrah; Kranich, Laurence - HAL - 2005

We model the interaction between an employer and a worker with interdependent preferences in a simple one-shot production process. In particular, we assume that the worker becomes kinder if she senses that her employer is an altruist. We assume that intentions are private information. Thus, the...

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The fetters of the sib: Weber meets Darwin

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen - HAL - 2008

other. With equally altruistic siblings, their equilibrium effort is nonmonotonic in the common degree of altruism and … altruism, and show that this degree is less than one half, the kinship relatedness factor. By way of numerical simulations we …

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Kinship, Incentives and Evolution

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen - HAL - 2009

equally altruistic siblings, their equilibrium effort is non-monotonic in the common degree of altruism, and it depends on the … harshness of the environment. We define a notion of local evolutionary stability of degrees of sibling altruism, and show that …

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Democracy and voting survey: first results from Ethiopia

Valfort, Marie-Anne - HAL - 2009

voting. The paper takes the form of the questionnaire itself in which we included, for each question, the corresponding first …

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International Remittances – A proposal how to test hypotheses about determinants of remittances with macroeconomic time series

Karpestam, Peter; Andersson, Fredrik N G - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011

consumption) in recipient countries. Two popular hypotheses about the causes of remittances are the altruism and insurance … hypothesis. Both hypotheses suggest that remittances are sent to compensate for short-run economic declines, but the altruism … countries proceeds and the need for outside assistance decreases. Hence, the altruism hypothesis predicts a negative correlation …

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