Traditional economic analysis has proposed well known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient … of R&D and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world generally, and for the … altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies such as Medicaid in the US. We stress that standard remedies to the two …

from patient interests, especially when providers are motivated more by profits than by altruism. We investigate how profit …

intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …

-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …

.S., (2) that the altruism model is far more applicable in the U.S. than it is in Japan but that it is not the dominant model …