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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262480
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Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? : A Test Based on Credit Rationing
Cigno, Alessandro; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Rosati, … - 2004
family constitution, than if she is moved by either altruistic or exchange motivations. The circumstance is the presence of a … motivated by either altruistic or straight exchange motives, but not the one that these transfers are governed by family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273995
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - 2014
belonging to the same network. We show that there is significant asymmetry of information and no evidence of major systematic … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … or an exchange motive with the recipient holding all the bargaining power. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398232
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500318
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert; Tabasso, Domenico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163488
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
belonging to the same network. We show that there is significant asymmetry of information and no evidence of major systematic … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … or an exchange motive with the recipient holding all the bargaining power. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891178
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761761
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Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing
Cigno, Alessandro; Giannelli, Gianna C.; Rosati, Furio C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
family constitution, than if she is moved by either altruistic or exchange motivations. The circumstance is the presence of a … motivated by either altruistic or straight exchange motives, but not the one that these transfers are governed by family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762423
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Bequest Division: The Roles of Parental Motives and Children's Gender Composition
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025
gender compositions for two fictitious children, hypothetical bequests are most unequally divided under the exchange motive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015409270
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Adversarial Economic Preferences Predict Right-Wing Voting
Buser, Thomas - 2024
that "adversarial" preferences - competitiveness, negative reciprocity, distrust, and selfishness - are strong predictors …-wing parties, whereas negative reciprocity, distrust, and selfishness are stronger predictors of voting for socially conservative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469374