concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an …

theories regarding the determination of intergenerational transfers. In this paper, we develop a theory that accounts for this … theory can also explain the norm of unigeniture, which prevails in other societies …

motivated by altruism. Specifically, the paper tests whether an increase by one dollar in the income of parents actively making … standard altruism model augmented to include uncertain and liquidity constraints. These additional elements pin down the timing … heterogeneity across families in the degree of altruism. The findings strongly reject the altruism hypothesis. Redistributing one …

-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …This paper develops a theory of intergenerational exchange for generations that are either selfish or have non …

To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids … communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between …

teenagers do not. The evidence is strongly consistent with the child-cycle pattern. Thus, while altruism drives some giving, the …