explained either by altruism or by an exchange motive. Though unequal sharing is expected under both hypotheses, under altruism …

instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing controls on individual fixed effects, we find strong evidence of altruism …

This paper shows that altruism may be beneficial in bargaining when there is competition for bargaining partners. In a …. However, this advantage is eroded as the discount factor increases, and if players are perfectly patient altruism and spite …

, recasting it into a Lindahl equilibrium framework. It has been shown that altruism towards parents provides an alternative … a sufficiently strong altruism towards parents can change a Pareto inefficient Samuelsonian economy with negative … proposes an ethical principle to supplement the equilibrium theory for guiding agents in their choice of the degree of altruism …

of society are centred around issues of altruism and selfishness. Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is … altruists to defect. Current gene-based evolutionary theories cannot explain important patterns of human altruism, pointing …