If the worst comes to the worst: Dictator giving when recipient’s endowments are risky
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
If the Worst Comes to the Worst Dictator Giving When Recipient’s Endowments are Risky
Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient they know to have the expected value of the endowment with certainty. They are particularly concerned a...
متن کاملWhen the worst headache becomes the worst heartache!
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although a great deal of literature has been generated regarding left ventricular wall abnormalities, ECG changes and cardiac enzyme leaks associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), there have been only a few reports of true transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome in patients with SAH. Several pathophysiological mechanisms have been proposed to explain t...
متن کاملAlcoholism – the Worst Addiction
Introduction: The most common substance of abuse/dependence in patients presenting for treatment in western countries is alcohol. Ethyl alcohol or ethanol which is also called medicinal alcohol is used as an official drug compendium. It is also administered as an antidote in methanol poisoning. However, regular consumption of high amounts of alcoholic drinks induces dependence and addiction lea...
متن کاملWho Are The Worst - Off When Preferences Matter ∗
The criteria called conditional equality and egalitarian equivalence proposed by Fleurbaey and Maniquet[15, 16] serve to assess the degree of equity among individuals. They have not been applied as often as the criteria of equality of opportunity[28, 30], mainly because the first criteria should be used in an ordinal framework which differs from the cardinal approach usually adopted in the lite...
متن کاملCovid 19: The Worst Health Calamity Of The World
The world has experienced an increased incidence and transboundary spread of emerging infectious diseases due to population growth, urbanization and globalization over the past four decades. Most of these newly emerging and re-emerging pathogens are viruses. On an average, more than two new species of viruses infecting humans are reported worldwide every year most of which are likely to be RNA ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Economic Review
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0014-2921
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.03.011