's common restrictions on the curvature of the decision-makers utility function can dramatically bias the altruism parameter. We … show that this is particularly problematic when comparing altruism between groups with well-documented differences in risk …

" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self …

colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …