depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we … progressively eroded from the Middle Ages until 1800, when there was an almost universal adoption of a patrilineal inheritance … system. Communities switched from an egalitarian system to a patrilineal inheritance system in an attempt to protect the per …

This general equilibrium model seeks to find an explicit relationship between inheritance (and hence, the long run … inheritance affects unemployment positively in micro-level. Amongst the different countries as a whole, a negative relationship …

acquisition. In the case of agricultural Kikuyu households in Kenya, we show that the inheritance practice of uncertain allocation … heirs. This apparent inefficiency is explained by intergenerational power dynamics within the household, as the inheritance …

altruism and fairness; how revulsion differs from squeamishness; how malevolence differs from selfishness; and how racial …

degree of altruism. In particular I experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way … was able to reduce the degree of altruism of a group of experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and …. It was found that the introduction of a hierarchical structure generated a significant decrease in the rate of altruism …

altruism. OT and altruism together predicted almost half the interpersonal variation in generosity. Notably, OT had twofold … larger impact on generosity compared to altruism. This indicates that generosity is associated with both altruism as well as …

to altruism as there was no effect on DG offers. This implies that other-regarding preferences are at play in the amount …

personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …

) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than conventional unilateral) altruism. Methods: Contingent … are entirely altruistic. Caregiving spouses rank Cure before Burden, reflecting less than perfect altruism which accounts … for some 40 percent of their to-tal WTP. Still, this constitutes evidence of mutual altruism. Conclusions: The evidence …