We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and … strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental …

We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and … strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental …

making ; choice behavior ; public goods ; experimental economics ; altruism ; fairness ; conditional reciprocity …

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public … problem with a constant discount rate and an endogenous annuity. -- overlapping generations ; altruism ; time consistency …

(competitive altruism) and in which they endogenously choose the reference group and associated reference standard involved in …

level of altruism increases the Nash level of the public good, demonstrating that caring about others improves public good …

I compare the relative importance of inter-generational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation, in determining … equilibrium climate policy, by imbedding an OLG framework with inter-generational altruism into a differential game between … nations. The model uses new representations for the aggregate preferences of OLGs with paternalistic or pure altruism, and …

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …

This paper addresses the external validity of experiments investigating the characteristics of altruism in the … a uniform way. In fact, parametric measures of altruism do a poor job of predicting which subjects are most likely to …