renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

-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 …

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

language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … function. I first show that under the standard dynastic social welfare function, which is commonly applied to intergenerational … models, child labor is never exploitative. In contrast, under an inclusive welfare function, which places additional weight …

treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative … altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …