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This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....
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colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …
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altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
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: 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 …
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Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
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