... (i.e., altruism) vary non-monotonically with impatience in intertemporal choice, declining at higher levels of impatience. We then provide a theoretical model whose predictions are consistent, under fairly general conditions, with these empirical findings. Consistent with previous experimental evidence...

... in the County of Stockholm, Sweden. The results indicate that altruism, as measured by willingness to give to a charity, is associated with less antibiotics use. Time preferences do not appear to play a role. Overconfidence in the effectiveness of antibiotics is widespread, and significantly associated...

...Mary L. Rigdon; Adam Seth Levine A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior. Many experiments, using a modified version of the dictator game, have revealed an interesting pattern: male subjects are more altruistic when...

... such as punishment, altruism or moral sentiments. There is also a danger of over-generalization where a framework is stretched to cover every possible behavior. Indeed, rational choice theory with “otherregarding” preferences is strictly unfalsifiable. Furthermore, because “other regarding” agents are also depicted...

... of as altruistic. Here, we provide evidence that individual variation in the propensity to punish low contributions is unrelated to altruism. First, individual use of punishment was uncorrelated with contribution to the public good, contrary to the hypothesis that punishers are proximally motivated by prosocial...