The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …

experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using standard methods from behavior genetics, we find strong prima facie …

to transfers of gifts inter vivos. We suggest that the equal division motive competes with traditional altruism: support … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …, which also support the equal division motive. -- Inter vivos gifts ; equal divisions altruism ; sibling comparisons …

this group. I find support for pure altruism because individuals who received additional Social Security benefits passed on …

that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …