Getting rich young

Getting The Rich and Powerful to Give

What motivates the rich and powerful? We explore this important question in a large field experiment. We solicit donations from 32,917 alumni of an Ivy League university, including thousands of rich and powerful alumni. Consistent with work from psychology, we find that rich and powerful alumni respond dramatically, and di↵erently than others, to being given a sense of agency over the use of do...

Transition: getting it right for young people.

irrespective of the presence or absence of chronic illness and/or disability. All young people will hopefully make the transition from childhood to adulthood and, along the way, move from the family home to live independently, from school to further education and/or training and/or work, and from paediatric to adult services including healthcare. Many young people make these transitions success...

Getting rich quick with the Axiom of Choice

This note proposes a new get-rich-quick scheme that involves trading in a stock with a continuous but not constant price path. The existence of such a scheme, whose practical value is tempered by its use of the Axiom of Choice, shows that imposing regularity conditions (such as measurability) is essential even in the foundations of game-theoretic probability. . . . these results do not give a p...

Getting it right for children, young people and families.

Getting and maintaining attention in talk to young children.

When two people talk about an object, they depend on joint attention, a prerequisite for setting up common ground in a conversational exchange. In this study, we analyze this process for parent and child, with data from 40 dyads, to show how adults initiate joint attention in talking to young children (mean ages 1;6 and 3;0). Adults first get their children's attention with a summons (e.g. Read...