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. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich regarding the quintessential poverty …
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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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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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We measure differences between altruism toward a family member and toward an unknown foreigner using hypothetical … altruism toward foreigners compared to toward family members. However, in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, people with higher …
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. 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 …
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behavior, non-selfish preferences may be evolutionarily successful. -- evolution of preferences ; altruism ; learning ; self …
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giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that … Glow ; Cold Prickle ; Charity ; Altruism …
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This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary...
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Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
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