This study constructs an altruism model of food aid. A theoretical model is constructed and shows that how each country …'s altruism. Analyses of data using donations through the World Food Program indicate that an empirical analysis of food donation …, which does not incorporate altruism, may provide misinformation regarding the effect of relevant variables, especially the …

Using 24 countries' data on the estimated degrees of filial and parental altruism, we examine the relationship between … the stages of economic development and degrees of altruism. We employ the ordinary least squares and two-stage least …

altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to …

We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of … steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is positively related to both level of altruism and altruism …

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

The purpose of this paper is to provide a general proposition of the relationship between altruism and risk taking. As … cases, we find that altruism lowers risk aversion. The specific case in which the utility functions of the benefactor and of … characterization. We conclude that in terms of risk-taking behavior, a "population" endowed with altruism is uniformly more willing to …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …