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The sustainability of the pay-as-you-go system with falling birth rates

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002

altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …

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Dimensions of donation preferences : the structure of peer and income effects

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...

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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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Altruism or diminishing marginal utility?

Gauriot, Romain; Heger, Stephanie A.; Slonim, Robert - 2018

's common restrictions on the curvature of the decision-makers utility function can dramatically bias the altruism parameter. We … show that this is particularly problematic when comparing altruism between groups with well-documented differences in risk …

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Econographics

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018

We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....

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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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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …

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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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