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Altruismus 3,416 Altruism 3,136 Theorie 1,761 Theory 1,680 USA 792 United States 784 Experiment 701 Spieltheorie 441 Fundraising 415 Game theory 411 Intergenerationale Übertragung 291 Intergenerational transfer 286 Öffentliche Güter 277 Public goods 273 Soziales Verhalten 267 altruism 267 Social behaviour 251 Philanthropie 234 Eigeninteresse 230 Philanthropy 230 Self-interest 224 Overlapping Generations 218 Overlapping generations 212 Gerechtigkeit 165 Generationengerechtigkeit 163 Intergenerational equity 157 Justice 155 Verhaltensökonomik 146 Erbe 144 Kinder 141 Behavioral economics 139 Inheritance 136 Children 130 Familienökonomik 129 Motivation 124 Soziale Wohlfahrtsfunktion 124 Family economics 121 Präferenztheorie 121 Soziale Beziehungen 120 Social welfare function 117
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Article in journal 1,490 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 1,490 Working Paper 1,273 Graue Literatur 1,135 Non-commercial literature 1,135 Arbeitspapier 1,087 Aufsatz im Buch 139 Book section 139 Hochschulschrift 84 Thesis 69 Collection of articles written by one author 33 Sammlung 33 Collection of articles of several authors 31 Sammelwerk 31 Aufsatzsammlung 18 Commentary 11 Kommentar 11 Bibliografie enthalten 10 Bibliography included 10 Konferenzschrift 10 Conference paper 9 Konferenzbeitrag 9 Reprint 8 Systematic review 8 Übersichtsarbeit 8 Case study 6 Fallstudie 6 Conference proceedings 5 Amtsdruckschrift 4 Government document 4 Handbook 3 Handbuch 3 Article 2 Doctoral Thesis 2 Forschungsbericht 2 Rezension 2 Bibliografie 1 Festschrift 1 Lehrbuch 1 Mehrbändiges Werk 1
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English 3,213 German 74 French 64 Undetermined 41 Italian 15 Spanish 11 Dutch 1 Russian 1 Swedish 1
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Fehr, Ernst 53 Stark, Oded 46 Dur, Robert A. J. 37 Michel, Philippe 36 Bolle, Friedel 35 Pestieau, Pierre 31 Cremer, Helmuth 28 Meier, Stephan 26 Frey, Bruno S. 23 Horioka, Charles 23 Fischbacher, Urs 22 Lacetera, Nicola 21 Macis, Mario 21 Falk, Armin 20 Sutter, Matthias 20 Weibull, Jörgen W. 20 Andreoni, James 19 Ohlsson, Henry 19 Slonim, Robert 19 Kolm, Serge-Christophe 18 Rotemberg, Julio 18 Wilhelm, Mark Ottoni 18 Carpenter, Jeffrey P. 17 Dur, Robert 17 Götte, Lorenz 17 Johannesson, Magnus 17 Martinsson, Peter 17 Siciliani, Luigi 16 Stutzer, Alois 16 Vidal, Jean-Pierre 16 Alger, Ingela 15 Buurman, Margaretha 15 Kritikos, Alexander 15 Roeder, Kerstin 15 Smith, Sarah 15 Thibault, Emmanuel 15 Weber, Roberto A. 15 Bénabou, Roland 14 Ranehill, Eva 14 Tirole, Jean 14
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National Bureau of Economic Research 24 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5 Universiṭat Bar-Ilan / Department of Economics 4 Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung Strategische Interaktion 3 Nationalekonomiska Institutionen <Göteborg> 3 Nationaløkonomiske Instituttet <Århus> 3 University of Canterbury / Dept. of Economics and Finance 3 Center for Economic Research <Tilburg> 2 Centre for the Study of African Economies 2 Edward Elgar Publishing 2 Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet <Stockholm> 2 Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas 2 Melbourne Business School 2 Nationalekonomiska Institutionen <Lund> 2 Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Departament d'Economia i Empresa 2 University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics 2 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / Department of Economics 2 Amternes og Kommunernes Forskningsinstitut <Kopenhagen> 1 Bertelsmann Stiftung 1 Boston College / Department of Economics 1 CESifo GmbH 1 Centre for Advanced Studies <Singapur> 1 Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science 1 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1 Council on Foundations 1 Deutsches Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen 1 European University Institute 1 Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix / Groupe de Recherche en Economie du Bien-Etre 1 Foerder Institute for Economic Research <Tēl-Āvîv> 1 Fondation de France 1 Fondazione Adriano Olivetti 1 Georgetown University / Economics Department 1 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 1 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover 1 Göteborgs universitet / Sociologiska institutionen 1 INSEAD 1 Institut français des relations internationales 1 Institut für Höhere Studien 1 Institut für Personalmanagement <Hamburg> 1 Institute of Finance and Accounting <London> 1
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Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 99 Discussion paper series / IZA 81 CESifo working papers 73 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 70 Journal of public economics 61 Economics letters 43 IZA Discussion Papers 43 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 41 The journal of socio-economics 36 Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute 35 The American economic review 32 CESifo Working Paper 30 Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association 30 Journal of economic psychology : research in economic psychology and behavioral economics 30 Working papers in economics 27 Journal of population economics 26 Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 25 NBER working paper series 24 Games and economic behavior 21 Journal of economic theory 21 Journal of political economy 21 Working paper 20 Journal of public economic theory 19 European economic review : EER 18 Working Paper 18 CORE discussion paper : DP 17 Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic Association International 17 Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 17 Jena economic research papers 16 NBER Working Paper 16 The economic journal : the journal of the Royal Economic Society 16 CEDEX discussion paper series 15 CESifo Working Paper Series 15 Discussion paper 15 Revue économique : revue bimestrielle 15 IZA Discussion Paper 14 Journal of business ethics : JOBE 14 Environmental & resource economics : the official journal of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 13 The economics of reciprocity, giving, and altruism 13 Theory and decision : an international journal for multidisciplinary advances in decision science 13
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
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Cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism
Nesje, Frikk - 2022
I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation’s preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...
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The crowdfunding of altruism
Faust, Luisa; Kolbe, Maura; Mansouri, Sasan; Momtaz, Paul P. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 3, pp. 1-29
This paper introduces a machine learning approach to quantify altruism from the linguistic style of textual documents. We apply our method to a central question in (social) entrepreneurship: How does altruism impact entrepreneurial success? Specifically, we examine the effects of altruism on...
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The effect of unavailable donation opportunities on donation choice
Morvinski, Coby - In: Marketing letters : a journal of research in marketing 33 (2022) 1, pp. 45-60
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Altruism networks, income inequality, and economic relations
Bramoullé, Yann; Kranton, Rachel E. - 2022
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Norm avoiders : the effect of optional descriptive norms on charitable donations
Andersson, Per A.; Erlandsson, Arvid; Västfjäll, Daniel - In: Journal of behavioral decision making 35 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12
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Quality improvement of agricultural products supply chain under social preference and CSR by big data analysis
Qin, Yanhong; Xiang, Lin - In: Journal of global information management 30 (2022) 7, pp. 1-26
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Why do parents under invest in their children's education? : evidence from China
Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022
In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
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Status for the good guys : an experiment on charitable giving
Dannenberg, Astrid; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Wetzel, Heike - In: Economic inquiry 60 (2022) 2, pp. 721-740
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Fairness-based altruism
Breitmoser, Yves; Vorjohann, Pauline - 2022
Why do people give when asked, but prefer not to be asked, and even take when possible? We introduce a novel analytical framework that allows us to express context dependence and narrow bracketing axiomatically. We then derive the utility representation of distributive preferences additionally...
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Selfish personalities influencing start-up intention and motivation : a study of Vietnam
Tran Thi Hong Lien; Tran Tu Anh; Truong Nhat Anh; Le … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-19
This research explores the influences of selfish personalities of the Dark Triad on start-up intention and motives based on a sample of 400 university students in Vietnam, discovering mixed effects of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. A high level of narcissism and Machiavellianism...
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Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 25 (2022) 3, pp. 845-875
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Optimal estate taxation : more (about) heterogeneity across dynasties
2022
Standard models on optimal estate taxation do not allow for intergenerational transmission of bequest motives. However, correlation in bequest motives may exist due to genetic and cultural transmission of preferences or indirect reciprocity. I introduce such intergenerational correlation to a...
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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods
Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022
We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already exists and needs to be maintained. In five lab and online experiments (n=2,584), we document a robust...
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Why Are Donors More Generous with Time Than Money? The Role of Perceived Control over Donations on Charitable Giving
Malkoc, Selin A. - 2022
Solicitation of time and money donations are central to the success of nonprofit organizations like charities and political groups. Although nonprofits tend to prefer money, experimental and field data demonstrate that donors prefer to donate time, even when doing so does less good for the...
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Sado-Masochism in Buchanan's Samaritan's Dilemma. A Constitutional Perspective
Marciano, Alain - 2022
In this paper, we study the impact of altruism on an interaction between a samaritan and a recipient/parasite in the frame of Buchanan's samaritan's dilemma (1975). We show that, as soon as altruism reaches a certain threshold, the equilibrium of the game corresponds to the situation Buchanan...
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Do Share-of-Income Limits on Tax-Deductibility of Charitable Contributions Affect Giving?
Duquette, Nicolas - 2022
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act increased the limitation on the tax deductibility of charitable contributions from 50 to 60 percent of adjusted gross income. This note estimates the effect of the share-of-income limitation on giving for the first time. Patterns in giving over time and across...
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The Formation of Physician Altruism
Attema, Arthur E.; Galizzi, Matteo M; Groß, Mona; … - 2022
We study how patient-regarding altruism is formed by medical education, a so far under-researched question. We structurally estimate altruistic preferences using experimental data from a large sample of medical students (N=733) in Germany at different stages in their studies. The estimates...
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Dads and Daughters : Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children
Dizon-Ross, Rebecca; Jayachandran, Seema - 2022
This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on their daughters relative to their sons. We compare mothers’ and fathers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous literature’s approach of comparing the expenditure...
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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving
Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022
The role of tax incentives in charitable giving has seen considerable attention. Yet, attention is limited to direct tax incentives, such as tax deductibility. Whether and how taxing household savings affects charitable giving is largely unexplored. While theory suggests a link, the sign of the...
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The Effects of Health, Family, and Altruism on Retirement Savings
Starr, Brian - 2022
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this paper broadens the analysis of retirement savings by examining the effects of health, children, altruism, and family of origin attributes on the decision of whether to save for retirement and on how much retirement savings is accumulated....
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How Do COVID-19 Closure Policies Change Smoking Behaviors : The Role of Altruism, Personalities, and Attitudes
Cai, Weicheng; Zhou, Yi - 2022
This study examines if people smoke more under Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) closure policies when trapped at home with their families. In such circumstances, the pleasure from smoking may be more tempting than usual. At the same time, smokers’ families are more likely to be victims of...
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Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents : A Structural Model of Medicare Payments for Dialysis Drugs
Gaynor, Martin; Mehta, Nirav; Richards-Shubik, Seth - 2022
We study physician agency and optimal payment policy in the context of an expensive medication used in dialysis care. Using Medicare claims data we estimate a structural model of treatment decisions, in which physicians differ in their altruism and marginal costs, and this heterogeneity is...
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Motivated Reasoning in Social Preferences
Borah, Abhinash - 2022
We propose and axiomatize a decision model of social preferences under risk that captures motivated reasoning in social assessments. Our model considers a setup with a decision maker (DM) and one other individual. It highlights how the presence of risk enables the DM to egoistically exploit the...
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Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism
Nesje, Frikk - 2022
I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation’s preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...
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Preferences for Giving Versus Preferences for Redistribution
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Strulov-Shlain, Avner; Taubinsky, … - 2022
We report the results of an online experiment studying preferences for giving and preferences for group-wide redistribution in small (4-person) and large (200-person) groups. We find that the desire to engage in voluntary giving decreases significantly with group size. However, voting for...
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Intergenerational Altruism : Estimates Based on News About Expected Mortality
Kvaerner, Jens - 2022
I analyze the inter-vivos transfers and bequest decisions of 700,000 individuals during a period when the decision-maker receives negative news regarding life expectancy. The event that initiates the news is a health outcome. Expected mortality increases both the likelihood of transferring...
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Altruism Begets Altruism
Heger, Stephanie; Slonim, Robert - 2022
Guided by Bem’s (1972) self-perception theory, we design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behaviour, e.g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism “now” and show that giving “now” causes a...
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Donor or Victim? The Matching Effect of Different Donation Protagonists and Donation Types on Donation Behavior
Duan, Sheng; ZONG, LU; Li, Zhi - 2022
Different donation protagonist is one of principal means to promote public participation in donation. Previous studies have explored the influence of different protagonists on observers' donation, few studies have explored the impact of interaction between charitable donation protagonists and...
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Altruism Begets Altruism
Heger, Stephanie; Slonim, Robert - 2022
We design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behavior, e.g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism “now” and show that giving “now” causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving...
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Presidential Approval Crowds Out Charitable Donations
Klein Teeselink, Bouke; Melios, Georgios - 2022
A large literature in public economics seeks to answer whether government activity crowds out charitable donations. The empirical evidence is mixed, however, and prior estimates range from large crowding out effects to small crowding in effects. To resolve this inconsistency, we consider that...
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Does Online Salience Predict Charitable Giving? Evidence from Sms Text Donations ∗
Scharf, Kimberley; Perroni, Carlo; Talavera, Sasha; Vi, … - 2022
We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches for words that appear in those charities’...
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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving
Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022
We provide novel evidence on the linkages between capital taxation and charitable giving on three fronts. First, we use quasi-experimental variation in the annual Norwegian wealth tax to study the effect on how much households give. Inconsistent with the notion that households give more in order...
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Formal Insurance and Altruism Networks
Bene, Tizié; Bramoullé, Yann; Deroïan, Frédéric - 2022
We study how altruism networks affect the adoption of formal insurance. Agents have private CARA utilities and are embedded in a network of altruistic relationships. Incomes are subject to both a common shock and a large idiosyncratic shock. Agents can adopt formal insurance to cover the common...
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
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Wealth, gifts and estate planning at the end of life
Sturrock, David; Groot, Stefan P. T.; Möhlmann, Jan L. - 2022
We quantify the size and tax-responsiveness of financial transfers made to heirs before death. The wealth of singles (including widows) with children declines substantially in anticipation of death. 92% of this decline is explained by transfers to children, while long-term care copayments can...
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Intertemporal prosocial choice : the inconsistency puzzle
Islam, Marco - 2022
How does delay in the realization of a prosocial decision affect prosocial choice? This paper first provides a meta-analysis that collects existing evidence on the temporal consistency of prosocial behavior. I show that the evidence on the delay effect on prosocial choice is contradicting but...
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Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
There is substantial evidence that women tend to support different policies and political candidates than men. Many studies also document gender differences in a variety of important preference dimensions, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. However, the degree to which...
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Sennt, Julien - 2021
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
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Asking to Give : Moral Licensing and Pro-Social Behavior in the Aggregate
Grieder, Manuel; Schmitz, Jan; Schubert, Renate - 2021
We study the effect of repeated opportunities to behave pro-socially on aggregate pro-social behavior in two laboratory experiments and in field data on charitable giving. In the first experiment we show that two consecutive pro-social decisions (implemented as donations to a charity) lead to...
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Family Ownership, Altruism and Agency Costs in Australian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Xiang, Dong; Worthington, Andrew C.; Higgs, Helen - 2021
There is continuing uncertainty about whether family firms have lower agency costs. This paper proposes that a combination of family ownership and altruism affects agency costs in family firms. To begin with, family ownership can reduce agency costs through better aligning the interests of...
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Fiscal Policy with Impure Intergenerational Altruism
Abel, Andrew B.; Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2021
Recent work demonstrates that dynastic assumptions guarantee the irrelevance of all redistributional polices, distortionary taxes, and prices--the neutrality of fiscal policy (Ricardian equivalence) is only the "tip of the iceberg." In this paper, we investigate the possibility of reinstating...
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Contribution to a Public Good with Altruistic Preferences
Banerjee, Anwesha - 2021
This paper presents a model of private provision of a public good where individuals in a group have altruistic preferences and care about the private and public good consumption of the other members of the group. I show that increasing the level of altruism increases the Nash level of the public...
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Evolution of altruistic motive and crowding-out effect in Turkey : Does private housing support matter?
Pelek, Selin; Polat, Sezgin - 2021
This paper aims to contribute to the growing literature on crowding out/in effects of public transfers in Turkey. We estimate the effects of public transfers on the amount and likelihood of receiving private transfers. We find that individual-level public transfers lead to crowding out whereas...
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Inequality and Incentives with Societal Other-Regarding Preferences
Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - 2021
The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of societal other-regarding preferences affect labor relationships and incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and...
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Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign
Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021
The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...
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Pro-environmental behavior as a means of self-signaling : theory and evidence
Flörchinger, Daniela; Frondel, Manuel; Sommer, Stephan; … - 2021
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Happy to help: the welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme
Dolan, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Shreedhar, Ganga; Lee, Helen - 2021
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Happy to help: the welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme
Dolan, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Shreedhar, Ganga; Lee, Helen - 2021
There is a strong suggestion from the existing literature that volunteering improves the wellbeing of those who give up their time to help others, but much of it is correlational and not causal. In this paper, we estimate the wellbeing benefits from volunteering for England's National Health...
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