Moral Behaviors and Economic Motives ----Evidence from China when the aged fall

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10.2991/icemct-16.2016.305How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Motive of Morality; Economic Motive; fall of the Aged; Moral Sentiment

Abstract

Helping behavior tendencies within members of the society are common, nevertheless “PENG-Yu” case, in 2006, surprisingly discourages the tendency in China and turns it around. This paper introduces the behaviors of the aged who fall and the passersby who see the fall of the aged into the economic framework. The moral sentiment comes into the utility function. Subject to certain constraints, the optimal solutions reflecting behaviors of relevant participants are obtained. Results show that the pattern of the passerby’s behaviors is influenced by the passerby’s moral sentiment and the choice of the old man. The choice of the old man is determined by the old man’s moral sentiment, the love for his children, his children’s income and the anticipated medical fees.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Feng-gang Lu
AU  - Yin-ping Chen
PY  - 2016/04
DA  - 2016/04
TI  - Moral Behaviors and Economic Motives ----Evidence from China when the aged fall
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT-16)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1455
EP  - 1458
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemct-16.2016.305
DO  - 10.2991/icemct-16.2016.305
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