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Wittenberg, Martin - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2001

We present a model in which there is potentially conflict within households about resource allocations. These conflicts are unlikely to be perfectly bargained out and hence there is some residual inefficiency associated with conflict which ought to increase with household size. We also show that...

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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests.

Lundholm, M.; Ohlsson, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...

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Conflictual intra-household allocations

Wittenberg, Martin - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2001

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Helping the Helpers : Altruism as a Rational Choice of Donors to a Students Voluntary Organization

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Espinosa, Miguel Andrés; … - 2009

Altruism, understood as the individual disposition to sacrifice personal income to improve someone else’s income can be …. We also evaluate the violation of consistency of the axioms and estimate the demand functions for altruism towards this … experimental data suggests that revealing the identity of the donor can decrease altruism and induce more violations of the axioms …

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Rational Altruism

Tóbiás, Áron - 2019

diametrically opposed to each other — such as in the prisoner’s dilemma. In games with more than two players, rational altruism can …

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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten dids turn into altruistic parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games

Langenbach, Pascal - 2014

In the dictator game, the recipient's opportunity to send a message to the dictator increases giving. This paperreports two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment...

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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...

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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.

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