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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

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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...

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Altruistic punishment in elections

Aimone, Jason A.; Butera, Luigi; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014

Altruistic punishment is a fundamental driver for cooperation in human interactions. In this paper, we expand our understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent between two potential policy outcomes of an election...

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Heterogeneous bequests and social inequalities

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Thai Ha Huy; Pakhnin, … - 2023

We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of … steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is positively related to both level of altruism and altruism …

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Low altruism, austerity, and aversion to default : are countries converging to the natural debt limit?

Bohn, Henning - 2013

reflecting low altruism - a discount rate on children's utility greater than the world interest rate - and I examine the … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …

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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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The welfare state redistribution and the economy : reciprocal altruism, consumer rivalry and second best

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2004

Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...

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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.

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Theories of fairness and reciprocity : evidence and economic applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2000

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001

, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …

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