between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are … elicited. We find that action-oriented altruism accounts for a significant increase in effort, while there is no additional …

Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …

want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings …

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

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 … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …

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