Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by … of altruism, are in this instance the most amenable to government intervention …

experiment and altruism largely explains why people give …The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not … recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism …

are characterized by multifaceted social preferences, encompassing reciprocity, altruism, and inequality aversion …

giver? We present a theoretical framework that distinguishes two types of motivation: individuals like to give, e.g., due to … altruism or warm glow, and individuals would rather not give but dislike saying no, e.g., due to social pressure. We design a … important determinant of door-to-door giving. Combining data from this and a complementary field experiment, we structurally …

private or government hospitals. Extending our model to include patient heterogeneity and impure altruism (rivalry) provides a …

crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative … theories of motivation crowding are unable to fit the non-monotonic moments in the data. A structural model of self …

.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards …

limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism … impure altruism compared with pure altruism, we show that, in general, it can be either more or less. Second, we propose a … heterogeneity based on park and volunteer hour types, are theoretically consistent with the mainstay model of impure altruism …

consumption and donations among individuals. We also conduct an original experiment that enables nonparametric tests of many … donations yield greater explanatory power than the standard model of impure altruism …