framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …

social distances, but only one of these decisions is implemented. We decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism … towards strangers, and directed altruism towards friends. In order to separate the motives that are altruistic from the ones … that decision-makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends as …

The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that bequests tend to be equal … implication. It has therefore been inferred that the motive underlying inter-vivos transfers is not parental altruism. In this … the child whose earnings are higher. We show that rather than being orthogonal to parental altruism, counter …