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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - 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 … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …

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Lotteries vs. all-pay auctions in fair and biased contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuel - 2012

The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...

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Partners in Crime: Diffusion of Responsibility in Antisocial Behaviors

Behnk, Sascha; Hao, Li; Reuben, Ernesto - 2017

Using a series of sender-receiver games, we find that two senders acting together are willing to behave more antisocially towards the receiver than single senders. This result is robust in two contexts: when antisocial messages are dishonest and when they are honest but unfavorable. Our results...

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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002

Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous inequity (envy) and advantageous inequity (compassion)....

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents

Kube, Sebastian; Schaube, Sebastian; … - 2014

Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these institutions. In this paper, we test within a unified framework...

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Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents

Kube, Sebastian; Schaube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Candidate Quality

Takalo, Tuomas; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....

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