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Limits to altruism : organ supply and educational expenditures

Beard, Thomas Randolph; Kaserman, David L.; Saba, Richard P. - In: Contemporary economic policy : a journal of Western … 22 (2004) 4, pp. 433-441

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One chance in a million: altruism and the bone marrow registry

Bergstrom, Theodore C.; Garratt, Rod; Sheehan-Connor, Damien - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1309-1334

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One chance in a million : altruism and the bone marrow registry

Bergstrom, Theodore C. (contributor); … - 2007

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One Chance in a Million : Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry

Bergstrom, Theodore C. - 2007

Transplants of donated stem cells save the lives of many patients with blood diseases. Donation is somewhat painful, but rarely has lasting adverse effects. Patients can accept transplants only from donors with compatible immune systems. Those lacking a sibling match must seek donations from the...

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Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs

Healy, Kieran - 2006

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Pro-social behaviours : between altruism and self-interest

Diacon, Paula-Elena - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius / Oeconomica 10 (2014) 5, pp. 68-80

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Economic analysis of charitable donations

Kang, Moon Young; Park, Byungho; Lee, Sanghak; Kim, Jaehwan - In: Journal of marketing and consumer behaviour in emerging … (2016) 2, pp. 40-57

This paper examines the effect of message characteristics on donation behavior using an economic model of giving. The utility of giving can come from one's own contribution and possibly from the combined contributions of others. Donors are assumed to be constrained utility maximizers, and the...

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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The economics of donations and enlightened self-interest

Buraschi, Andrea; Cornelli, Francesca - In: European financial management : the journal of the … 20 (2014) 1, pp. 1-32

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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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