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

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

are characterized by multifaceted social preferences, encompassing reciprocity, altruism, and inequality aversion …

We empirically test an information economics based theory of social preferences in which ego utility and self … a large price discount for the good. The combined evidence supports the self-signaling theory whereby price discounts … crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …

We develop a theory of optimal estate taxation in a model where bequest inequality is driven by differences in parental … altruism. We show that a wide range of results are possible, from positive taxes to subsidies, depending on redistributive …

.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards …

one possible explanation: that individual aversion to inequality--both envy and altruism--lead to systematic differences … workers in the sector. We also present structural estimates of the influence of envy and altruism on sector-specific trade … policy preferences. Our estimates indicate that both envy and altruism influence support for trade protection in the United …

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