Search Results - subject:"altruism"

Altruistic giving and risk taking in human affairs

Stark, Oded; Balbus, Lukasz - 2024

The purpose of this paper is to provide a general proposition of the relationship between altruism and risk taking. As … cases, we find that altruism lowers risk aversion. The specific case in which the utility functions of the benefactor and of … characterization. We conclude that in terms of risk-taking behavior, a "population" endowed with altruism is uniformly more willing to …

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High cost of survival promotes the evolution of cooperation

Smirnov, Oleg - In: Games 16 (2025) 1, pp. 1-12

Living organisms expend energy to sustain survival, a process which is reliant on consuming resources - termed here as the "cost of survival". In the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), a classic model of social interaction, individual payoffs depend on choices to either provide benefits to others at a...

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Endogenous altruism and long term care policies in a Mirrleesian setting

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz - 2025

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Partially funded social security and growth

Bethencourt, Carlos; Kunze, Lars; Perera-Tallo, Fernando - 2025

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The mixed effects of making contribution behaviors observable

Hoven, Noel Z.; Nyborg, Karine - 2025

Voluntary contributions to public goods have been shown to increase when contribution behaviors become observable by peers. We examine the effect of social pressure on moral behaviour, using a framework distinguishing explicitly between observable and nonobservable forms of contribution. We show...

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Absolute versus relative inequality and social preferences : a comparative study between Mozambique and Viet Nam

Ferreira, Ines A.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Tarp, Finn - 2025

Knowledge of the factors driving people's views on redistribution in the Global South remains limited. While these societies occupy top positions in inequality rankings, redistribution levels tend to be lower. We combine survey and experimental data from Mozambique and Viet Nam to test whether...

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For the future of our grandchildren : grandparenthood and climate change concerns

Voorintholt, Lieke; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Soetevent, … - 2025

Concerns about offspring's life quality are often cited as a motivation for caring about climate change. This paper investigates the hypothesized causal effect of grandparenthood on climate change worries, using panel data surveys among British families. Specifically, we study whether becoming a...

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Misconceptions about the theoretical support for family firm long-term orientation

Chua, Jess H.; Chrisman, James J.; Wang, Hao; Wu, Saisai - 2025

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Self-selection into health professions

Fedele, Alessandro; Tonin, Mirco; Wiesen, Daniel - 2025

higher cognitive ability, greater altruism, and the personality trait of conscientiousness are positively associated with the …

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Bequest division : the roles of parental motives and children's gender composition

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025

Drawing on two data sources from across Europe, we show that both bequest motives of parents and children’s gender composition shape unequal divisions of bequests. First, the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe reveals that observed bequests are divided unequally when children...

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