and shows that the insistence by workers that firms act with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage … responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that …

teenagers do not. The evidence is strongly consistent with the child-cycle pattern. Thus, while altruism drives some giving, the …

an anonymous treatment where neither player is told at the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment … future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared …

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies such as Medicaid in the US. We stress that standard remedies to the two …

that it is not of dominant importance even in Japan, and conversely, that the altruism model is far more applicable in the …

. I show that, even if the degree of altruism is small, direct democracy leads to commercial policies that are biased …