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Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants’ assimilation?

Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 1-5

Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant.

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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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On the Interpretation of Giving, Taking, and Destruction in Dictator Games and Joy-of-Destruction Games.

Zhang, Le; Ortmann, Andreas - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2012

The literature on dictator [D] games seems to demonstrate that some people are quite altruistic (nice), whereas the literature on joy-of-destruction [JoD] games shows that some people may be quite nasty. We study to what extent these behaviors are context dependent: If people are nice or nasty,...

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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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Too smart to be selfish? Measures of cognitive ability, social preferences, and consistency

Chen, Chia-Ching; Chiu, I-Ming; Smith, John; Yamada, Tetsuji - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) C, pp. 112-122

Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between consequential measures of cognitive ability and...

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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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