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A General Theory of Complex Living Systems: Exploring the Demand Side of Dynamics

Snooks, Graeme Donald - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

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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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