counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

motivation crowding. In particular, we analyze how various governmental interventions affect the agent's motivation to assume … moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding model, we find that morally motivated behavior will, in general, not … ensure Pareto efficiency without intervention. A Pigouvian tax may be efficient under motivation crowding. But the efficient …

sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled …

mixture of true and coerced altruism between family members. We model families as pairs of siblings. Each sibling exerts … actuarially fair formal insurance. We show that coerced family altruism reduces individual efforts in equilibrium. However …, individuals always benefit ex ante from living in families with coerced altruism, as compared with living in autarky. We show that …