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Private Safety Nets through Inter-Household Transfers: The Case of Viet Nam
Cox, Donald; Fetzer, James; Jiminez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996
This paper uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey (VNLSS) to provide a snapshot of private transfer activity. We investigate private transfer patterns along a variety of dimensions, such as age, household resources, demographic make-up of the household and characteristics of the region of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102651
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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being
Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2013
We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991174
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Kinship, incentives, and evolution
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 4, pp. 1725-1758
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747544
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On the economics of others
Stark, Oded - 2013
. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism … deprivation. I provide examples of domains in which the incorporation of altruism and relative deprivation can point to novel … consideration of relative deprivation can substitute for the prevalence of altruism, and vice versa. I conclude that this is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197411
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On the economics of others
Stark, Oded - 2014
. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism … deprivation. I provide examples of domains in which the incorporation of altruism and relative deprivation can point to novel … consideration of relative deprivation can substitute for the prevalence of altruism, and vice versa. I conclude that this is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257295
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793312
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797673
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703241
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Altruism and Climate
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jorgen W. - 2007
analyze how the equilibrium outcome depends on altruism and climate for ex ante identical individuals. We also consider (a …) coerced altruism, that is, situations where a social norm dictates how output be shared, (b) the effects of insurance markets …, and (c) the role of institutional quality. The evolutionary robustness of altruism is analyzed and we study how this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057092
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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being
Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - 2014
We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159386