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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives

Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …

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Mutual Altruism: Evidence from Alzheimer Patients and Their Spouse Caregivers

König, Markus; Pfarr, Christian; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than conventional unilateral) altruism. Methods: Contingent … are entirely altruistic. Caregiving spouses rank Cure before Burden, reflecting less than perfect altruism which accounts … for some 40 percent of their to-tal WTP. Still, this constitutes evidence of mutual altruism. Conclusions: The evidence …

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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …

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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks

De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and …

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Evolutionary Economics and Household Behavior

Horioka, Charles Yuji - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2014

and self-interest vs. altruism. …

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Volunteering, Happiness and Public Policy

Binder, Martin; Freytag, Andreas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

Is the activity of volunteering something that benefits the volunteer as well as the recipient of the volunteer’s activities? We analyze this relationship and apply matching estimators to the large-scale British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set to estimate the causal impact of...

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The Kantian Ethic of Capitalism

Jones, Jr., Harold B. - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 22 (2006) Fall 2006, pp. 37-52

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Symbols, Group Identity and the Hold-up Problem

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

Groups, companies, and organizations identify themselves via symbols. Symbols have the potential to create group identity and at the same time create group boundaries, thus allowing for achieving the benefits of cooperation by ingroup members. We use a laboratory experiment to study the role of...

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Isolating and identifying motivations: A voluntary contribution mechanism experiment with interior Nash equilibria

Kumakawa, Takehisa; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Yamato, Takehiko - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015

What motivates subjects in their decision making is a lingering issue in public goods experiments. Using a nonlinear payoff function and a two-subject model, we create a one-toone correspondence between contributions and motivations, enabling us to isolate and identify the following three...

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Pay-for-Performance, Reputation, and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision

Kairies, Nadja - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 702-715

assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but, dislike being perceived as …

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