(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …

reflecting low altruism - a discount rate on children's utility greater than the world interest rate - and I examine the … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

Guided by Bem's (1972) self-perception theory, we design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behaviour, e ….g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism "now" and … show that giving “now” causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving "later"; that is, altruism begets altruism …

: "altruism" and "appreciation". We test our theoretical model's predictions by matching attitudes reported in the British Social …

: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …