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 …

-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 …

the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the …

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 … decreases with a worker’s laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find …