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Stark, Oded; Nicinska, Anna - 2015

We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider "a family tradition of bequeathing" as a channel through which the intention to bequeath is molded by and is positively correlated with the experience of inheriting. We use data from the...

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Can altruism lead to a willingness to take risks?

Stark, Oded - 2023

I study attitudes towards risk taking in cases where a person relates to others positively, namely altruistically. This study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will this person's risk-taking behavior differ if the...

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Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices

Stark, Oded; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2018

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average...

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Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants’ assimilation?

Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2012

Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant. -- Assimilation of migrants ; Acculturation identity ; Links with...

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On the economics of others

Stark, Oded - 2014

We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism. Caring about how we fare in comparison with others who fare...

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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : a hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2021

We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...

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Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply : a hypothesis

Stark, Oded - 2021

Drawing on two assumptions: that menopause is an instrument for the efficient regulation of the duration of a biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea that seeks to explain both the occurrence of menopause...

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Dynasties and destiny : on the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests

Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2001

Die Studie untersucht die gemeinsame Rolle von Altruismus und Ungeduld sowie den Einfluss der Evolution während der …, wie Konsumpfade von Dynastien mit Altruismus und Ungeduld verknüpft sind, und folgern daraus, dass länger lebende … Dynastien einen höheren Grad an Altruismus und ein geringeres Ausmaß an Ungeduld aufweisen als kurzlebige Dynastien. …

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Dynasties and destiny : on the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests

Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2001

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On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device

Stark, Oded (contributor); Behrens, Doris (contributor); … - 2008

In a haystack-type representation of a heterogeneous population that is evolving according to a payoff structure of a prisoner's dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of swappingʺ individuals between heterogeneous groups of constant size after a random allocation fills the haystacks,...

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