may lead to an astonishing equalization of consumptions between the spouses and their parents, even when their parents … attention to their respective parents “in exchange” for a bequest. Spouses behave towards their respective parents like Becker …’s rotten kids; they are purely selfish and anticipate that their altruistic parents will leave them a bequest. The most …

this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …

the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand … reflecting low altruism—a discount rate on children’s utility greater than the world interest rate—and I examine the implications … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and …

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …

How should we construct incidence indexes for children and parents in the case of public subsidies for home-care of the … the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the … subsidy for home care paid to the parents be defined, in budgetary or in welfare terms, and what does simulation tell us about …

decreases with a worker’s laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find …We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker’s altruism, and increases or …