We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

the donor (impure warm-glow altruism). Consistent with the model's predictions, the experiment shows that priming pure …. 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 …

surveys. However, studies analysing the effect of altruism on willingness to pay (WTP) have underappreciated the challenges in … measuring altruism by the stated measures typically used. Instead, we exploit a naturally occurring decision domain to … investigate the role of altruism in SP. We make use of an Internet survey company's data on respondents' donations of earned …