Search Results - subject:"altruism"

"Leaving no child behind" : preferences for social inclusion and altruism

Menon, Martina; Perali, Federico; Veronesi, Marcella - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 17 (2017) 3, pp. 1-19

Increasing the well-being of others on-the-job and outside the workplace

Lent, Max van - 2017

We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...

Do gender preference gaps impact policy outcomes?

Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

Many studies document systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. One potential implication of this literature is that increased female representation in decision-making bodies may significantly alter...

Do gender preference gaps impact policy outcomes?

Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

Pocketbook voting, social preferences, and expressive motives in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2017

strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental …

A signal of altruistic motivation for foreign aid

Civelli, Andrea; Horowitz, Andrew Warren; Teixeira, Arilton - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 4, pp. 1-31

Quality competition and hospital mergers : an experiment

Han, Johann; Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Vomhof, Markus - 2016

Based on a Salop model with regulated prices, we investigate quality provision behavior of competing hospitals before and after a merger. For this, we use a controlled laboratory experiment where subjects decide on the level of treatment quality as head of a hospital. We find that the...

Intergenerational altruism : a solution to the climate problem?

Nesje, Frikk; Asheim, Geir B. - 2016

The future effects of climate change may induce increased intergenerational altruism. But will increased … intergenerational altruism reduce the threat of climate change? In this chapter we investigate this question. In a second-best setting … increased intergenerational altruism is a means for achieving accumulation of consumption potential (through accumulation of …

Altruism or exchange? : experimental evidence on the motives behind private transfers in Sri Lanka

Aida, Takeshi; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2016

Early childhood environment, breastfeeding and the formation of preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2016

breastfeeding duration is associated with higher levels of patience and altruism as well as a lower willingness to take risk …