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 …

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …

public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results … are important to learn the extent to which we can model charitable donations in a model with a self-interested utility …

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 …

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …