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 …

incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many settings. We combine standard altruism and warm … altruism and provide an alternative method for collecting warm glow preferences …

's common restrictions on the curvature of the decision-makers utility function can dramatically bias the altruism parameter. We … show that this is particularly problematic when comparing altruism between groups with well-documented differences in risk …

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We … while children's altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric …

treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …