colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …

-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …

altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …

reflecting low altruism - a discount rate on children's utility greater than the world interest rate - and I examine the … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …

altruism increases the efficiency of donation choices, substitutability of donations between money and time and crowding out …. 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 …

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 …

This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …