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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …

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The Effect of Social Norms Estimation on Non-Strategic Giving : Controlling for the Role of Numeric Anchoring and Extra Monetary Prospects

Senci, Maximiliano - 2017

Making participants estimate the prescriptive norm increases generosity in a Dictator Game (DG). Authors have interpreted this result in terms of Norm Focus Theory (Cialdini et al., 1990). Nonetheless, non-normative explanations have not been discarded yet. We replicated the effect of...

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Economic growth in the Potterian economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel C. - 2010

We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...

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Social norms and welfare state dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …

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The transmission of sustainable harvesting norms when agents are conditionally cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - 2013 - Draft version: 15 May 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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Economic growth, technological progress, and social capital : the inverted u hypothesis

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2011

We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...

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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say?s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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The moldable young : how institutions impact social trust

Bergh, Andreas; Öhrvall, Richard - 2016

Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions is debated. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates (surveyed in the SOM Institute's Swedish Expatriate Survey 2014), we use variation in time...

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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