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

prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …

: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …