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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359908
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084714
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395461
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Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing, and Inequality
Ambrus, Attila; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Elliott, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper studies costly network formation in the context of risk sharing. Neighboring agents negotiate agreements as in Stole and Zwiebel (1996), which results in the social surplus being allocated according to the Myerson value. We uncover two types of inefficiency: overinvestment in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960431
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Commercial Policy with Altruistic Voters
Rotemberg, Julio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
against trade as long as the mobile factor is unbiased in the sense of Jones and Ruffin (1977) and the income of the owners of … the factor which is specific to the import competing sector is lower than the income of the owners of the other specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829340
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Are the Japanese Selfish, Altruistic, or Dynastic?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
In this paper, I analyze a variety of evidence for Japan and, where available, for the United States on bequest practices, on the importance and nature of bequest motives, on bequest division, on the willingness of individuals to help others, etc., in order to shed light on which model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829890
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Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
Berman, Eli; Rzakhanov, Zaur - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
Consider migration to a higher income region as a human capital investment in which parents bear migration costs and … countries at comparable income levels. It provides an alternative explanation for Chiswick's classic earnings-overtaking result …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830168
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Religious Identity and Economic Behavior
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Choi, James J.; Fisher, Geoffrey W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We randomly vary religious identity salience in laboratory subjects to test how identity salience contributes to six hypothesized links from prior literature between religious identity and economic behavior. We find that religious identity salience makes Protestants increase contributions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615794
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Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions
Rotemberg, Julio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper studies quality choice in a model where consumers expect firms (or brands) to act altruistically. Under plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism, existing brands can face a larger demand for new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622333
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Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game
Sapienza, Paola; Baran, Nicole M.; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625917