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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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An Analysis of Food Aid and Altruism
Tcha, MoonJoong; Lio, Fiona - Department of Economics, Business School - 2002
This study constructs an altruism model of food aid. A theoretical model is constructed and shows that how each country …'s altruism. Analyses of data using donations through the World Food Program indicate that an empirical analysis of food donation …, which does not incorporate altruism, may provide misinformation regarding the effect of relevant variables, especially the …
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Two-sided Altruism and Level of Development
Uruyos, Manachaya - 2019
Using 24 countries' data on the estimated degrees of filial and parental altruism, we examine the relationship between … the stages of economic development and degrees of altruism. We employ the ordinary least squares and two-stage least …
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Ecotourism in Costa Rica: an Economic Framework of Analysis.
Courvisanos, J.; Jain, A. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 2000
Costa Rica is a small Central American nation that has gained an international reputation as a leader in environmental conservation. This has formed the base for its highly successful small-scale ecotourism industry. However, there are threats from high rates of deforestation and expanding...
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Biodiversity and Agriculture: Implications for Conservation and Development.
Srivastava, J.; Smith, N.J.H.; Forno, D. - World Bank Group - 1996
Both indigenous knowledge and scientific research are needed to meet the challenge of intensifying agriculture in an environment-friendly manner and understanding how the landscape mosaic of cultural habitats could contribute to conservation of biodiversity.
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Altruistic economic behaviors and implicit worldviews
Lee, Sun Youn; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kwon, Hyeog Ug; Lim, … - 2014
Korea, Japan and the US. Altruism and intergenerational transfers have been widely studied in economics (Fehr and Schmidt …
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Compensatory inter vivos gifts
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007
This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....
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Are Americans and Indians more altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? : evidence from a new international survey of bequest plans
Horioka, Charles - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
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Gender differences in altruism : responses to a natural disaster
Lilley, Matthew; Slonim, Robert - 2016
to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent … altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
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