A Signaling Explanation for Charity

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1019-1028

  Glazer, Amihai ^a   Konrad, Kai A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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