Altruism with Social Roots: An Emerging Literature

Revised: 2007-01.-- Published as an article in: Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad (2006), Semestre II, pp. 245-260.

Life Expectancy, Human Capital, Social Security and Growth

Revised: 2006-11.-- Published as an article in: Journal of Public Economics 90(12), December, 2006, pp. 2323-2349.

Altruism in the (Social) Network

This paper explores the role of social integration on altruistic behavior. To this aim, we develop a two-stage experimental protocol based on the classic Dictator Game. In the first stage, we ask a group of 77 undergraduate students in Economics to elicit their social network; in the second stage, each of them has to unilaterally decide over the division of a fixed amount of money to be shared with another anonymous member in the group. Our experimental design allows to control for other variables known to be relevant for altruistic behavior: framing and friendship/acquaintance relations. Consistently with previous research, we find that subjects favor their friends and that framing enhances altruistic behavior. Once we control for these effects, social integration (measured by betweenness, a standard centrality measure in network theory) has a positive effect on giving: the larger social isolation within the group, the more likely it is the emergence of selfish behavior. These results suggest that information on the network structure in which subjects are embedded is crucial to account for their behavior.

Delimitación del Marketing con Causa o Marketing Social Corporativo mediante el análisis de empresas que realizan acciones de responsabilidad social

Extracto del trabajo de investigación presentado en el programa de doctorado, que además está incluido en el formato de artículo en los anales (proceedings) de las II Jornadas Internacionales de Marketing Público y No Lucrativo (Zaragoza, abril de 2003).

Benchmarking en responsabilidad social corporativa. El caso de las empresas gallegas

[ES] En el presente trabajo se realiza una revisión del concepto de responsabilidad social. Posteriormente se analizan las posibilidades y problemas de la utilización del benchmarking en RSE haciendo un análisis de las últimas investigaciones que desarrollaron algún método de benchmarking. A partir de ese análisis se propone un indicador homogéneo que evalúa 68 aspectos relacionados con los diferentes stakeholders implicados en RSE. También se recoge información sobre la importancia otorgada por las empresas encuestadas a estos aspectos.

Pension system's reform in Spain: a dynamic analysis of the effects in Welfare

100 p. : graf.

A técnica retórica da refutação no discurso da oposição e do governo : o caso da Contribuição Social para a Saúde (CSS)

Os discursos dos deputados federais Henrique Fontana (PT-RS) e Antônio Carlos Magalhães Neto (DEM-BA) sobre a criação da Contribuição Social para a Saúde (CSS) constituem o tema deste trabalho, cujos focos são o aspecto político-retórico e a utilização das técnicas do discurso clássico, especialmente a refutação, nas intervenções desses líderes. Conclui-se que os discursos políticos ainda consideram determinadas referências clássicas, embora com menos ênfase do que na antiguidade, e que novas mídias e auditórios externos são elementos recentes na relação entre o político e os receptores de suas peças oratórias.

Data analysis advances in marine science for fisheries management : supervised classification application

169 p. : il. col.

Uncovering Ecosystem Service Bundles through Social Preferences

11 p.

Prosocial norms and degree heterogeneity in social networks

We provide empirical evidence to support the claims that social diversity promotes prosocial behavior. We elicit a real-life social network and its members’ adherence to a social norm, namely inequity aversion. The data reveal a positive relationship between subjects’ prosociality and several measures of centrality. This result is in line with the theoretical literature that relates the evolution of social norms to the structure of social interactions and argues that central individuals are crucial for the emergence of prosocial behavior.

Social Organisation of the Short-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, with Special Reference to the Comparative Social Ecology of Delphinids

As a contribution to the understanding of comparative social trends within the cetacean family Delphinidae, a 22-month study was conducted on the shortfinned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, which has been suggested to have a unique social system in which males and females in the same group are related and mating occurs outside of the group. The individual identification of 495 pilot whales, analysed in daily group association patterns, allowed identification of 46 pods. They were classified as productive or non-productive based on the presence or absence of immature animals. Productive pods were a significantly larger, although 12% of them lacked adult males. Two classes of whales (residents and visitors) were defined by patterns of occurrence,suggesting differential patterns of habitat use. Resident pods occasionally travelled together (41% of all groups) and associations between age and sex classes showed that in mixed-pod groups, the highest ranked associations of the reproductive females were with males from other pods, while within pods, adult males and females associated less. During summer, the proposed peak conception period, pilot whale groups were significantly larger and contained individuals from a significantly greater number of pods. These findings support the hypothesis that males and females mate when associating with individuals from other pods. A comparative analysis of sexual dimorphism, brain size, and testes size, habitat, prey and group size within the 17 delphinid genera identified a correlation between sexual dimorphism and body size, but relative measures of brain size and testes size did not correlate with broad ecological or social classifications. However, a comparison of three delphinid societies identified two distinct male mating systems: males of the small, mono-morphic Tursiops truncatus live in age/sex segregated groups and mate with a number of discrete female communities. Males in the large sexually dimorphic Glob icephala spp. and Orcinus orca mate with associated female pods and yet remain with their female kin. This corresponds to the avunculate social system described in some human societies. It could evolve from a promiscuous mating system where there is little guarantee of paternity and where males that live with their kin increase their inclusive fitness.

Una profesión sostenible: el educador/a social en Derechos Humanos

RESUMEN: El presente trabajo trata de indagar sobre los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho a la Educación de los niños y niñas de colectivos desfavorecidos, para promover la reflexión y proyección de la Educación Social como profesión educativa en la educación de paz y Derechos Humanos. Para ello, se realiza una revisión de las bases científicas, e históricas de las que surgen los Derechos Humanos. Posteriormente, mediante una metodología cualitativa de caso, se lleva a cabo por un lado, la observación de la experiencia educativa de la Comunidad de Collique en Lima (Perú); y por otro se realiza una evaluación y análisis de los resultados obtenidos.

Weighting social preferences in participatory multi-criteria evaluations: a case study on sustainable natural resource management

28 p.

Identifying social determinants of urban low carbon transitions: the case of energy transition in Bilbao, Basque Country

33 p.

La cerámica de la Segunda Edad del Hierro en el País Vasco: Estudio tecnológico, funcional y social

670 p. Capítulos de introducción, metodología, discusión y conclusiones en castellano e inglés.