We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

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 questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …

Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to …

altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …