scholarly journals Worthiness versus Self‐Interest in Charitable Giving: Evidence from a Low‐Income, Minority Neighborhood

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1196-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Candelo ◽  
Angela C. M. Oliveira ◽  
Catherine Eckel
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Minority Neighborhood

scholarly journals Seroprevalence and Correlates of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection among Young Adults in a Low‐Income Minority Neighborhood

2005 ◽  
Vol 191 (5) ◽  
pp. 818-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter L. Flom ◽  
Jonathan M. Zenilman ◽  
Milagros Sandoval ◽  
Benny J. Kottiri ◽  
Samuel R. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Herpes Simplex Virus ◽  
Herpes Simplex ◽  
Virus Type ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Herpes Simplex Virus Type ◽  
Minority Neighborhood ◽  
Simplex Virus

The “dark side” of food banks? Exploring emotional responses of food bank receivers in the Netherlands

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (9) ◽  
pp. 1506-1520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilje van der Horst ◽  
Stefano Pascucci ◽  
Wilma Bol
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
Food Bank ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address how food, social status as well as the interactions at the food bank induce emotions in receivers, such as shame, gratitude and anger. Since early 2000s a steadily growing number of low-income and/or over-indebted households in the Netherlands alleviate their situation with food donations from local food banks. Such food banks collect from companies edible food that would otherwise have gone to waste. The growing demand for food assistance indicates it is a welcome contribution to the groceries in many households. However, receiving food assistance as well as eating the products forces the receivers to set aside embodied dispositions towards food and norms about how to obtain food. Furthermore, it places them in interactions of charitable giving that may be harmful to the self-esteem of receivers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a qualitative study at a food bank in the Netherlands, consisting among others of in-depth interviews with 17 receivers of food assistance, observations and several interviews with volunteers. Findings – Of all emotions that were expressed during the interviews, shame appeared as the most prominent. Particularly issues of shame emerged in relation to all three food-bank-related experiences: the content of the crate, the interaction with volunteers and lastly the understanding of one's positioning in a social hierarchy. While shame can be a very private emotion – even talking about being ashamed can be shameful – it is also an utterly social emotion. Originality/value – This research is among the few ones explicitly addressing emotional emotions related to receivers in food bank.

scholarly journals Public Support for Higher Taxes on the Wealthy: California’s Proposition 30

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline J. Tolbert ◽  
Christopher Witko ◽  
Cary Wolbers
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Sales Tax ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Ballot Initiatives ◽  
Party Position ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Do So

It has long been argued that growing inequality would lead to growing demands for redistribution, especially from less affluent individuals who would benefit most from redistribution. Yet, in many countries we have not seen tax increases and even when ballot initiatives allow individuals to directly vote to raise taxes on the wealthy they decline to do so. This raises the question of how economic self-interest shapes voting on tax proposals, and what factors may weaken the links between economic self-interest and tax policy preferences. In the U.S. context partisanship is a factor that has a major influence on attitudes about taxation. To explore how self-interest sometimes overcomes partisanship we take advantage of competing initiatives that were simultaneously on the ballot in California in 2012. California’s Proposition 30, a successful 2012 initiative, significantly increased taxes on the wealthy. By comparing voting on Proposition 30 to voting on Proposition 38, which would have raised taxes on nearly everyone, we observe that when tax hikes are focused only on the wealthy a substantial number of lower income Republicans (i.e., conservatives) defect from their party position opposing taxation. We identify these low-income Republicans as “populists.” Lower income Republicans are also less supportive of income tax increases on the lower and middle classes, and are more sensitive to income tax increases than sales tax increases. We argue that economic self-interest causes heterogeneity within the parties in terms of attitudes toward tax increases.

scholarly journals Freedom, self-interest and the urban: From political to post-political economy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
Probability Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Probability And Statistics

The global financial crash of 2008 had many precipitating causes and has had massive repercussions over the past seven years on global economic activity as well as on how urban infrastructure, housing and services are financed and delivered. The crash was precipitated by the massive escalation in global derivatives trading, especially that related to low income housing mortgages. It was also precipitated by a failure of predictive measures, probability models and the calculability of market forecasts that have been the foundation to economic planning since the emergence of political economy at the end of the eighteenth century. This paper aims to do two things in relation to this recent episode in economic history. The first is to undertake a genealogy of the emergence of political economy and a State’s reliance on probability and statistics for its governance. This is primarily analysed through the writings of Michel Foucault on space, power and the aleatory. The second is to introduce the thinking of the economics philosopher, Elie Ayache, who wrote a book after the crash on the end of probability. The paper’s overall aim is to bring the work of Foucault and Ayache together in drawing out a radical thinking with respect to the urban of the relation between space, power, contingency, and writing.

Co-operative Development as a Trade Union Strategy

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Davis
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Working People ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Income Neighborhood

This article argues that trade union and other progressive bodies in Britain, Europe and North America need to use their membership and broader labour movement contacts as a resource for financing worker co-operative development, not as a simple act of altruism, but out of self-interest. The author argues that such a strategy, properly regulated and managed would help to defend wages, extend trade union membership and organization, and could help promote majority shareholding in conventional companies by Trade Union Trusts. The author seeks to demonstrate that working people have the means from their own resources to eliminate unemployment. The figures quoted in the text are based on U.K. Sources, however similar figures have been produced for North America by Caftel, B. in “The Billion-Dollar Low Income Neighborhood” in Co-op Magazine, Sept/Oct 1980, Ann Arbor, USA.

scholarly journals “First the Grub, then the Morals”? Disentangling the Self-Interest and Ideological Drivers of Attitudes Towards Demanding Activation Policies in Belgium

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
FEDERICA ROSSETTI ◽  
KOEN ABTS ◽  
BART MEULEMAN ◽  
MARC SWYNGEDOUW
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
Welfare Attitudes ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Following the shift towards an activating role of the European welfare states, there is increasing scholarly interest in public support for demanding activation policies that impose obligations on welfare recipients. Borrowing the classical theoretical frameworks used in welfare attitudes research, we aim to disentangle the effect of self-interest and ideological beliefs on support for demanding activation. Using data from the Belgian National Election Study (2014), we find that support for demanding activation is strongly related to authoritarian dispositions, work ethic and rejection of egalitarianism. For the social-structural variables, we find direct as well as indirect (that is, mediated by the ideological dimensions) effects. Controlling for ideology, social categories that are potentially most affected by welfare obligations – i.e. those currently unemployed, with a previous experience of unemployment and low-income individuals – are more likely to oppose demanding policies, which can be interpreted as a self-interest effect. The effects of educational level, conversely, are primarily mediated and should be understood in terms of ideological preferences rather than self-interest. Our results indicate that, when analysing support for specific welfare policies, attention needs to be paid to the interplay between self-interest and ideological preferences.

A Model of Migrants' Remittances with Human Capital Investment and Intrafamilial Transfers

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. C. Brown ◽  
Bernard Poirine
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Human Capital Investment ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Integrated Theory ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Imperfect Capital Markets ◽  
Original Survey

This study analyzes data on migrants' remittances using a two-period theory of intergenerational transfers based on an informal, intrafamilial loan arrangement using “weak altruism,” a behavior between “strong altruism” and pure self-interest. The model provides an integrated theory of migrants' remittances, human capital investment decisions, and intrafamilial transfers applicable to low-income countries with no official pension schemes and imperfect capital markets. Propositions, derived from the theory, are tested, re-analyzing original survey data on remittances of Pacific island migrants in Sydney. When weak altruism and strong altruism yield opposite predictions, the econometric results tend to confirm the former hypothesis and invalidate the latter.

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