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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...

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Verified Trust: Reciprocity, Altruism and Noise in Trust Games

Brülhart, Marius; Usunier, Jean-Claude - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Behavioural economists have come to recognize that reciprocity, the interaction of trust and trustworthiness, is a distinct and economically relevant component of individual preferences alongside selfishness and altruism. This recognition is principally due to observed decisions in experimental...

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Other-Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium

Dufwenberg, Martin; Heidhues, Paul; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We study competitive market outcomes in economies where agents have other-regarding preferences. We identify a separability condition on monotone preferences that is necessary and sufficient for one's own demand to be independent of the allocations and characteristics of other agents in the...

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The Role of Equality and Efficiency in Social Preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results...

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The Benefits and Costs of Group Affiliation: Evidence from East Asia

Claessens, Stijn; Fan, Joseph P.H.; Lang, Larry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

with groups using data of two thousand firms from nine East Asian economies between 1994-96. We find that mature and slow …

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

concerning ‘money’ (consumption) and happiness, as well as religion. …

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …

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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour: Experimental evidence from a representative sample of Spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … “no religion” made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

Padro, Gerard; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...

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