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 …

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 …

-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …

.S., (2) that the altruism model is far more applicable in the U.S. than it is in Japan but that it is not the dominant model …