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Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

This paper analyses normative implications of relaxing the conventional welfare economics assumptions anthropocentrism and welfarism, i.e. that only human well-being counts intrinsically, combined with various types of non-selfish individual preferences. Social decision rules are derived for the...

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Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of conditional cooperation, and we test the hypothesis that increased...

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Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries

Martinsson, Peter; Pham-Khanh, Nam; Villegas-Palacio, Clara - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing...

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Conditional Cooperation and Social Group - Experimental results from Colombia

Martinsson, Peter; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

In contrast to previous studies on cross-group comparisons of conditional cooperation, this study keeps cross- and within-country dimensions constant. The results reveal significantly different cooperation behavior between social groups in the same location.<p>

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Compensatory inter vivos gifts

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2000

Empirical studies of intergenerational transfers usually find that bequests are equally divided among heirs while inter vivos gifts tend to be compensatory. Using the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we find that only 4% of parents who give, divide their gifts equally...

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BEQUESTS, GIFTS, AND EDUCATION Swedish evidence on parents’ transfer behavior

Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

We study the motives behind parents’ transfers to their children, and the relationship between tangible transfers and educational investments. Another issue is the channels parents choose for tangible transfers. Do they use bequests and inter vivos gifts as substitutes or complements? We use a...

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Keeping others in our mind or in our heart? Distribution games under cognitive load

Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Johansson, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

It has recently been argued that giving is spontaneous while greed is calculated (Rand et al. 2012). If greed is calculated we would expect that cognitive load, which is assumed to reduce the influence of cognitive processes, should affect greed. In this paper we study both charitable giving and...

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Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers

Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration (unification) of the different transfers taxes affect tax avoidance? These issues are important for families and their welfare, as well as for governments and their possibilities of...

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Global environmental problems, efficiency and limited altruism

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

market may still undertake globally efficient abatement investments, given the existence of limited nonpaternalistic altruism …

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Altruism and Career Concerns

Shchetinin, Oleg - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent’s motivation in the career concerns model. I show that career … concerns incentive is lessened by altruism. As a consequence, altruism can decrease effort, though conventional wisdom suggests … interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The paper also studies the effect of altruism on wage. Interestingly, the …

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