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Are remittances to sub-Saharan Africa altruistic or for self-interest? : evidence from Kenya

Kagochi, John; Chen, Chien-ping - In: International journal of economics and finance 5 (2013) 12, pp. 70-78

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Valuing social capital by the resources people allocate to one another

Zischka, Lorna - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 25 (2013) 5, pp. 609-625

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Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the emergence of cooperative equilibria from passing and shooting

Askitas, Nikos - 2014

There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...

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Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees : evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2013

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker·s altruism, and increases or … decreases with a workers laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that …

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On self-interest and greed

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2014

First the assumption of self-interest as applied in Economics is presented. Here we also discuss areas in which (many) people behave less self- but more other-regarding than traditional economic models assume. Then, greedy behaviour is considered as existing in the political and economic...

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For love or reward? : characterising preference for giving to parents in an experimental setting

Porter, Maria; Adams, Abi - 2014

This paper examines the motivation for intergenerational transfers between adult children and their parents, and the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, in an experimental setting. Participants in our experiment play a series of dictator games with parents and strangers, in which we...

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Directed giving : evidence from an inter-household transfer experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...

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Social preferences under uncertainty

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013

Willingness to take risk depends on whether the risk affects others as well as oneself and on how the risk affects oneś position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment that explores individual attitudes to lotteries...

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"Even a single package of pastas will help ... " : the effectiveness of the legitimizing paltry contribution technique on altruism

Jacob, Céline; Charles-Sire, Virginie; Guéguen, Nicolas - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 42 (2013) 4, pp. 828-836

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …

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