-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 …

There are three prominent solutions to the Darwinian problem of altruism, kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and trait … group selection. Only one, reciprocal altruism, most commonly implemented in game theory as a TIT FOR TAT strategy, is not … based on the principle of conditional association. On the contrary, TIT FOR TAT implements conditional altruism in the …

others, often understood in economics as instances of (behavioural) altruism, can be motivated by individual group status …-based aspects of behavioural altruism. A more formal argument is provided in order to highlight specific effects. Applications (e …

An examination of how intergenerational altruism and borrowing constraints shape the interest rate, savings, and …

capital is an increasing function of the intergenerational degree of altruism. However, while with time transfers the labor … supply of the young increases with the degree of altruism, with bequests it may decrease. …