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Faria, João Ricardo - 2017

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that the optimal timing for the sequential-action game played by rotten kids and a parent depends crucially on whether the kids are homogeneous or heterogeneous. For homogeneous kids,...

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2016

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social preferences while still being able to predict behavior...

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On Self-Interest and Greed

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2014

First the assumption of self-interest as applied in Economics is presented. Here we also discuss areas in which (many) people behave less self- but more other-regarding than traditional economic models assume. Then, greedy behaviour is considered as existing in the political and economic...

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Selfish and Prospective : Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in …

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Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

Rothschild, Casey G. - 2014

We develop a framework for optimal taxation when agents can earn their income both in traditional activities, where private and social products coincide, and in rent-seeking activities, where private returns exceed social returns either because they involve the capture of pre-existing rents or...

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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara - 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We … while children's altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric …

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Optimum Taxation of Bequests in a Model with Initial Wealth

Brunner, Johann K. - 2010

external effect related to altruism is accounted for in the social objective …

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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding

Scharf, Kimberly A. - 2013

We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...

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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation Under Different Assumptions on Altruism

Casarico, Alessandra - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Bosworth, Steven - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of “multi-directedness,” whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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