Kohara, Miki (contributor); Ōtake, Fumio (contributor) - 2006
. Focusing on the special case of parents’ illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … care is not motivated entirely by altruism. We show that children provide parental care when their parents are wealthy … enough to meet the costs of nursing. -- Altruism ; Informal Parental Care ; Within-family Money and Time Transfers ; Home …