This paper is an empirical study of the motives for charitable donations, based on a unique data set of the English … National Opera. Merging all their box office and fundraising data, our data set not only contains individuals’ donations, but … public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …

donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between …

distinct and economically relevant component of individual preferences alongside selfishness and altruism. This recognition is … power of trust as a determinant of those decisions, suggesting that altruism may explain much of what ‘looks like’ trust … protocols and framing. Therefore, we propose discriminatory tests for altruism and trust that can be based on within …

emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as …

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for …