study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will … ability to make altruistic transfers? Or does altruism induce a person to resort to risky behavior because the reward for a … averse than a comparable person who is not altruistic: altruism is a cause of greater willingness to take risks. The finding …

We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time … relate to altruism and to impatience and we reason that long-lived dynasties will be characterized by a higher degree of … altruism and a lower degree of impatience than short-lived dynasties. -- altruism ; impatience ; intergenerational transfers …

The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that bequests tend to be equal … implication. It has therefore been inferred that the motive underlying inter-vivos transfers is not parental altruism. In this … the child whose earnings are higher. We show that rather than being orthogonal to parental altruism, counter …