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Remittances and portfolio values: An inquiry using Spanish immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2012

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … we would expect given migrants' diverse backgrounds and motives for emigrating. Additionally, remitting patterns change … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …

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It Hurts to Ask

Benabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Incentives and prosocial behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...

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Malleability of Preferences for Honesty

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. In this paper, we investigate whether preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines...

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Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb; Benabou, Roland - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...

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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations is long, but recent research has focused on altruism, reputational concerns, and material...

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703171

Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323

Remittances and well-being among rural-to-urban migrants in China

Akay, Alpaslan; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan David; … - 2012

The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances … on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC …), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective well- being is regressed on the level of remittances, and we find a …

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