-stakes setting. The estimates reject extant models of giving, but are consistent with the new theory …

We empirically test an information economics based theory of social preferences in which ego utility and self … a large price discount for the good. The combined evidence supports the self-signaling theory whereby price discounts … crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …

Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by … of altruism, are in this instance the most amenable to government intervention …

teenagers do not. The evidence is strongly consistent with the child-cycle pattern. Thus, while altruism drives some giving, the …

private or government hospitals. Extending our model to include patient heterogeneity and impure altruism (rivalry) provides a …

-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …This paper develops a theory of intergenerational exchange for generations that are either selfish or have non …

that it is not of dominant importance even in Japan, and conversely, that the altruism model is far more applicable in the …