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 …

The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not … recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism … varies with the level of giving-by-others, and it cannot identify the strength of warm glow and altruism preferences. These …

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

public health insurance coverage. A key question in assessing the cost of this option is the extent to which public … eligibility will crowd out the private insurance coverage of these groups. We estimate the extent of crowdout arising from the … of the increase in Medicaid coverage was associated with a reduction in private insurance coverage. This occurred largely …

Can public insurance through redistributive income taxation improve the allocation of risk in an economy in which … the first place. If risk sharing is incomplete because some insurance markets are missing for model-exogenous reasons (as … of risk. If instead private insurance markets exist but their use is limited by the absence of complete enforcement (as …

Using 41 million observations on savings for the population of Denmark, we show that the impacts of retirement savings … policies on wealth accumulation depend on whether they change savings rates by active or passive choice. Subsidies for … retirement accounts, which rely upon individuals to take an action to raise savings, primarily induce individuals to shift assets …

awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …