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Volunteering and life or financial shocks: Does income and wealth matter?

Beatton, Tony; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2014

) that tracks the same individuals over time to assess how individuals from different income and wealth groups respond to … life and financial shocks with respect to volunteering. Although both income and wealth can act as buffers against life … observe more heterogeneity than expected and also stickiness at the lowest income levels. Response delays in post …

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Environmental Morale and Motivation

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

This chapter discusses the role of environmental morale and environmental motivation in individual behavior from the point of view of economics and psychology. It deals with the fundamental public good problem, and presents empirical (laboratory and field) evidence on how the cooperation problem...

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004

Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studied empirically. We...

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Social Capital and Relative Income Concerns: Evidence from 26 Countries

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individuals? attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking … relative income on 14 measurements of social capital. We find support for a considerable deleterious positional concern effect … of persons below the reference income. This effect is more sizeable by far than the beneficial impact of a relative …

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Glück ? die ökonomische Analyse

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009

income and life satisfaction is strongly shaped by the aspiration level serving to evaluate life conditions. The aspiration …

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The emergence of emotions and pro-social and religious sentiments during the September 11 disaster

Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011

Analysing emotional states under duress or during heightened, life-and-death situations is extremely difficult, especially given the inability of laboratory experiments to adequately replicate the environment and the inherent biases of post event surveys. It is in this area that natural...

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Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010

We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is positively associated with social...

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The Times They Are a Changin': The Effect of Institutions on Behavior, Cooperation, Emotional Attachment and Sentiment at 26,000ft

Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013

This paper attempts to determine if the introduction of a competing social institution has had a significant effect and shifted the pro-social behavior in the extreme (life-and-death) environment of mountaineering in the Himalayan Mountains over the last sixty years. We apply an analytic...

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Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence from 30 Countries

Torgler, Benno; Frey, Bruno S.; Wilson, Clevo - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007

The paper investigates the relationship between pro-social norms and its implications for improved environmental outcomes, an area which has been neglected in the environmental economics literature. We provide empirical evidence, demonstrating a strong link between perceived environmental...

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