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Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016

integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …

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Worldviews and intergenerational altruism : empirical evidence for Germany

Akkemik, Kucik Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - 2012

This paper studies the effects of differences in worldviews on parents? attitudes towards their children. We use unique German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our empirical evidence suggests that people with stronger...

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Estimation of social preferences in generalized dictator games

Breitmoser, Yves - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 2, pp. 192-197

To statistically infer the motives underlying pro-social behavior, econometric models of choice are required. Such inference is comparable across studies if the choice model yields estimates that are precise in-sample and robust out-of-sample. Analyzing two extensive dictator game data sets, I...

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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …

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Unobserved heterogeneity and labor market discrimination

Sarzosa, Miguel - 2018

Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …

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Bequest motives : a comparison of Sweden and the United States

Laitner, John; Ohlsson, Henry - 1998

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Consumption growth and volatility with consumption externalities

Xie, Runli - 2010 - This draft: November, 2010

This paper studies the link between group-specific consumption growth and volatility within a framework of heterogeneous agents, under the assumption of a consumption externality. Household preferences are related to the volatility through asset holding decisions: volatility decreases with...

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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? : are the Japanese any different?

Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli - 2016

In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...

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Bequest motives : a comparison of Sweden and the United States

Laitner, John; Ohlsson, Henry - 1998

This paper reviews four well known theoretical models of private bequest behavior, notes their differing implications for public policy, and discusses a way of empirically discriminating among them. Then it implements the test with micro data from Sweden (LLS) and the U.S. (PSID). The so-called...

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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? : are the Japanese any different?

Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli - 2017

We conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of why children live with (or near) their parents and provide care and assistance to them using microdata from a Japanese household survey, the Osaka University Preference Parameter Study. We find that the Japanese are more likely to live with (or...

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