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Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others - it is consequence-dated - or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...
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: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …
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: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …
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: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …
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surveys. However, studies analysing the effect of altruism on willingness to pay (WTP) have underappreciated the challenges in … measuring altruism by the stated measures typically used. Instead, we exploit a naturally occurring decision domain to … investigate the role of altruism in SP. We make use of an Internet survey company's data on respondents' donations of earned …
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Philanthropy is one of the enduring areas of economic research. Why would people work hard only to give their earnings away? The paper explores the theoretical foundations, as well as the empirical and policy research on philanthropy. This paper reviews over 25 years worth of economic research,...
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Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … (which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …
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