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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015

personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …

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Risk preference and child labour : econometric evidence

Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020

The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic reasons but also as insurance against future income shocks. Hence, the allocation of the child's time between school and work is a function of the risk preference of the household...

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Time-inconsistent generosity : present bias across individual and social contexts

Kölle, Felix; Wenner, Lukas - 2019

We investigate the presence and stability of dynamically inconsistent time preferences across contexts with and without interpersonal trade-offs. In a longitudinal experiment subjects make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real-effort tasks between themselves and another person....

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Quality provision in competitive health care markets : individuals vs. teams

Han, Johann; Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Vomhof, Markus - 2020

We investigate the quality provision behavior and its implications for the occurrence of collusion in competitive health care markets where providers are assumed to be altruistic towards patients. For this, we employ a laboratory experiment with a health care market framing where subjects decide...

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Economic analysis of charitable donations

Kang, Moon Young; Park, Byungho; Lee, Sanghak; Kim, Jaehwan - In: Journal of marketing and consumer behaviour in emerging … (2016) 2, pp. 40-57

This paper examines the effect of message characteristics on donation behavior using an economic model of giving. The utility of giving can come from one's own contribution and possibly from the combined contributions of others. Donors are assumed to be constrained utility maximizers, and the...

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Increasing the well-being of others on-the-job and outside the workplace

Lent, Max van - 2017

We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...

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Impure altruism and other donor attraction factors : a study based on a database of non-government organizations (NGOs) in the Philippines

Reside, Renato E. - 2017

This study uses panel data on a sample of non-government organizations (NGOs) to estimate the factors that motivate donors to contribute to them. The results of empirical estimation suggest that a mix of conventional and tax factors influence donors. The results are consistent with the...

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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017

, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children’s IQ and economic preferences

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2017

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 likely to be risk-seeking. To understand the...

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Intergenerational transfers, demographic transition, and altruism : problems in developing asia

Koda, Yoshitaka; Manachaya Uruyos; Dheera-aumpon, Siwapong - 2017

the degrees of filial and parental altruism and adjust them with their respective life expectancy and fertility rates. The … altruism than those in the other countries. Our welfare analyses reveal that the developing Asian countries must introduce more … filial altruism will trap the developing Asian countries at the current low levels of public old-age supports and social …

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