The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution … 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 …

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

-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent will behave differently if she is optimizing subject to a … family constitution, than if she is moved by either altruistic or exchange motivations. The circumstance is the presence of a … family constitution exists, but will have the opposite effect if the transfer is either a gift, or payments for services …

Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to …

situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first … stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer within a relationship of one-sided altruism. In the second stage, the … compensatory way in an altruism model. …

-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 …