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Gajdos, Thibault; Kandil, Feriel - HAL - 2008

We propose an extension of Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem based on the representation of ignorance as the set of all possible probability distributions over individuals. We obtain a characterization of the observer's preferences that, under our most restrictive conditions, is a convex...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting

Eriksson, Tor; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2004

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …

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Social preferences and lying aversion in children

Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014

of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more selfjustification to lie. …

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Fair Accumulation under Risky Lifetime

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

Individuals save for their old days, but not all of them enjoy the old age. This paper characterizes the optimal capital accumulation in a two-period OLG model where lifetime is risky and varies across individuals. We compare two long-run social optima: (1) the average utilitarian optimum, where...

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Fair Accumulation under Risky Lifetime

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

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Evolving Informal Risk-Sharing Cooperatives and Other-Regarding Preferences

Bourlès, Renaud; Rouchier, Juliette - HAL - 2012

In this paper we present a model of formation and destruction of informal cooperatives in a population of agents who perform a risky activity and who are heterogeneous in terms of success in their actions. Although some agents have high-risk and others low-risk, our model displays a dynamics...

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Irreversibility of time, reversibility of choices ? The Life-Course foundations of the transitional labour markets approach

Anxo, Dominique; Erhel, Christine - HAL - 2006

The article analyses the potential links between the life course approach and the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour market, as well as of the heterogeneity in course...

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Migrant wages, remittances and recipient labour supply in a moral hazard model

Naiditch, Claire; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...

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Long-Term Care, Altruism and Socialization

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2011

-run prevalence of family altruism in the population. That evolutionary effect questions the desirability of the LTC public provision … altruistic and non-altruistic agents, and where the transmission of (non) altruism takes place through a socialization process à …

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Individual preferences and the distribution of wealth

Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - HAL - 2005

degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of family and non family altruism. Short-term impatience and non family … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … with the degree of family altruism (wealth intended for bequests). The way preferences are measured allows to get rid of …

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