to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent … altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …

consistent with the Beckerian view of egoist motivations for altruism …

Altruism, understood as the individual disposition to sacrifice personal income to improve someone else’s income can be …. We also evaluate the violation of consistency of the axioms and estimate the demand functions for altruism towards this … experimental data suggests that revealing the identity of the donor can decrease altruism and induce more violations of the axioms …

characteristics (altruism, trust, reciprocity, and cooperativeness). After further analyses, we confirmed that the wider number of …

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …