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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1-122). 2006

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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Evolutionary stability of indirect reciprocity by image scoring

Berger, Ulrich; Grüne, Ansgar - 2014

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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.

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The experience is (not) everything : sequential outcomes and social decision-making

Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen - 2021

altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …

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Does Inequality Breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals’ Predispositions Towards Redistributive Schemes

Machado, Fabiana V. P. - 2013

. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich when it comes to the quintessential …

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The Welfare State, Redistribution and the Economy, Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021

Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...

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Samaritan's Dilemmas, Wealth Redistribution, and Polycentricity

Tuszynski, Meg - 2016

It is nearly universally presumed that redistribution can be carried out effectively only at the national or even global level, because local redistribution will be negated through personal mobility: recipients will move to high-paying jurisdictions while taxpayers will move away from those...

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The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism

Holford, Angus - 2015

Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...

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Does Inequality Breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals' Predispositions Towards Redistributive Schemes

Machado, Fabiana V. P. - 2012

. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich regarding the quintessential poverty …

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The Role of Altruism in Sending and Spending Remittances

Shimada, Akira - 2013

We investigate the effects of altruism on migrants' decisions to send money home and on their households' decisions to … invest or to consume those remittances. Previous studies have devoted extensive attention to migrants' altruism toward … recipients and little to recipients' altruism toward migrants. We find that the migrant sends larger remittances home when he …

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