'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 …

This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we … develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other … that altruism undermines the credibility of a threat of dismissal but strengthens the credibility of a bonus. Among others …

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

-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 …