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Risking Other People's Money : Experimental Evidence on Bonus Schemes, Competition, and Altruism
Andersson, Ola - 2014
We study risk taking on behalf of others in an experiment on a large random sample. The decision makers in our experiment are facing high-powered incentives to increase the risk on behalf of others through hedged compensation contracts or with tournament incentives. Compared to a baseline...
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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences: Evidence based on Japanese General Social Survey
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for various individual characteristics, the important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496193
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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences : evidence based on Japanese general social survey
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for various individual characteristics, the important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526919
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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences: Evidence based on Japanese General Social Survey
Yamamura, Eiji - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2012
The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for various individual characteristics, the important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903897
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Econographics
Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018
We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....
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Social preferences and political attitudes : an online experiment on a large heterogeneous sample
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel - 2017
This paper investigates - in a large heterogeneous sample - the relationship between social preferences on the one hand, and socioeconomic factors and political preferences on the other hand. Socioeconomic factors correlate with social preferences, and social preferences robustly shape political...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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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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Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change
Atkinson, Giles D.; Dietz, Simon; Helgeson, Jennifer; … - 2009
Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In...
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Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change
Helgeson, Jennifer; Dietz, Simon; Atkinson, Giles D.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-26, pp. 1-28
Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298644