intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …

plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism …

voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as votes for third …

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 …

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