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Intergenerational Altruism And Neoclassical Growth Models

Michel, Philippe; Thibault, Emmanuel - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 14 (2013) 3, pp. 953-1022

This paper surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to … intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an … intergenerational altruism. Other forms of altruism, referred to as ad hoc altruism, are also examined, along with their implications …

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Working for a Good Cause

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - CESifo - 2013

reinforcing role of altruism and mission alignment in sorting to the public sector, particularly among highly educated workers and …

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Oxytocin, but not Vasopressin, Increases both Parochial and Universal Altruism

Israel, Salomon; Weisel, Ori; Ebstein, Richard P.; … - Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University … - 2012

In today’s increasingly interconnected world, deciding with whom and at what level to cooperate becomes a matter of increasing importance as societies become more globalized and large-scale cooperation becomes a viable means of addressing global issues. This tension can play out via...

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Motivations of older volunteers in three European countries

Principi, Andrea; Chiatti, Carlos; Lamura, Giovanni - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) May, pp. 704-722

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate older volunteers’ motivations, with special focus on country differences, considering the kind of activities carried out and age differences. Design/methodology/approach – Using the Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI), the authors...

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Risk-Sharing Within Families: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study

Akin, S. Nuray; Leukhina, Oksana - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2013

We report strong empirical support for the presence of a risk-sharing motive of within-family monetary flows. A standard model of risk-sharing predicts that the share of current family income consumed by a child positively depends on that child's lifetime contribution to the present value of the...

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The development of trust and altruism during childhood

Evans, Anthony M.; Athenstaedt, Ursula; Krueger, Joachim I. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 36 (2013) C, pp. 82-95

have examined the development of trust while controlling for age differences in altruism. We hypothesized that older … children are more likely to trust, and that this age-related increase is not due to an increase in altruism. In two experiments … positively related to both trust and altruism, but more strongly to the former. The age difference in trust was robust when we …

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Learning to be fair

Andreozzi, Luciano - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) C, pp. 181-195

We study the process of equilibrium selection in games when players have social preferences of the type discussed, among others, by Rabin (1993) and Segal and Sobel (2007). To this end, we employ a standard noisy version of the best response dynamics. We obtain several results concerning some...

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Economic Growth and Endogenous Intergenerational Altruism

Rapoport, Hillel; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2003

paper, we construct a neoclassical growth model where intergenerational altruism is endogenous and entails costly sacrifices … conditions, altruism determines the level of intergenerational bequests and ultimately the accumulation of physical capital and … accumulate altruism in the long run whenever the ‘marginal degree of altruism’ is sufficiently high. Second, we find that the …

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Altruism vs. Financial Incentives in Transplantation Ethics (Enghish version)

FRUNZA, Mihaela; GAVRILUTA, Cristina - In: Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - … 1 (2011) February, pp. 139-149

the current organ shortage, the idea of gift and the virtue of altruism have started to be discussed and problematized by …

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O analiza etica a terminologiei donatorilor vii propusa de ELPAT - An Ethical Analysis of the Terminology of Living Donors Proposed by ELPAT (Romanian version)

FRUNZA, Sandu - In: Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - … 1 (2011) February, pp. 119-127

Having in mind the various difficulties to integrate a particular donation into a category, as well as the ethical consequences of the present ambiguities, recently, the ELPAT group on living donors (Ethical, Legal and Psychological Aspects of Organ Transplantation) has proposed a new...

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