data with representative behavioural data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviourally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly …

public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …

social security system and inheritance taxation) in an overlapping generations model with perfect altruism. It generalizes … productivity and altruism. Within such a model wealth is entirely held in the steady-state by the families with the highest degree … of altruism. Under plausible assumptions both public debt and social security are neutral à la Ricardo, while increasing …

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for …

wills planning to divide their estates unequally among their children. These plans for unequal division are particularly … concentrated in complex families, that is, families with stepchildren and families with genetic children with whom the parent has … had no contact (e.g., children from previous marriages). We find that in complex families past and current contact between …