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Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 4, pp. 1725-58

We analyze how family ties affect incentives, with focus on the strategic interaction between two mutually altruistic siblings. The siblings exert effort to produce output under uncertainty, and they may transfer output to each other. With equally altruistic siblings, their equilibrium effort is...

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Governance Institutions and Economic Activity

Dixit, Avinash - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 5-24

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat; Meier, Stephan - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 544-55

This paper experimentally examines image motivation--the desire to be liked and well regarded by others--as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...

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Price Indexes, Inequality, and the Measurement of World Poverty

Deaton, Angus - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 5-34

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of purchasing power parity (PPP) price indexes from the International Comparison Project. Global inequality increased with the latest revision of the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line...

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Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

Karlan, Dean; List, John A. - In: American Economic Review 97 (2007) 5, pp. 1774-1793

We conducted a natural field experiment to further our understanding of the economics of charity. Using direct mail solicitations to over 50,000 prior donors of a nonprofit organization, we tested the effectiveness of a matching grant on charitable giving. We find that the match offer increases...

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Morally Motivated Self-Regulation

Baron, David P. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 4, pp. 1299-1329

Self-regulation is the private provision of public goods and private redistribution. This paper examines the scope of self-regulation motivated by altruistic moral preferences that are reciprocal and stronger the closer are citizens in a socioeconomic distance. The focus is on the role of...

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The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity

DellaVigna, Stefano; List, John A.; Malmendier, Ulrike; … - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 586-90

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women become less generous when it becomes easy to avoid the...

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Inheritances, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Accumulation of Health

Carman, Katherine Grace - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 451-55

This paper considers the mechanisms behind a positive correlation between inheritances and health. First, there may merely be a correlation: those from families with enough wealth to provide an inheritance tend to have better health. Second, financial resources could be used to purchase inputs...

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Income and Substitution Effects of Estate Taxation

Hines, James R. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 484-88

into the substitution effect of relative price changes and the two income effects for which the estate tax is responsible …. These two income effects arise from tax burdens on those who leave estates plus tax burdens on those who receive them …. Despite the double income burden of the estate tax, existing empirical evidence suggests that the net effect of estate …

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Dictating the Risk: Experimental Evidence on Giving in Risky Environments

Brock, J. Michelle; Lange, Andreas; Ozbay, Erkut Y. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 415-37

We study if and how social preferences extend to risky environments. We provide experimental evidence from different versions of dictator games with risky outcomes and establish that preferences that are exclusively based on ex post or on ex ante comparisons cannot generate the observed...

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