Alger, Ingela (contributor); Weibull, Jörgen W. (contributor) - 2007
We analyze the effects of family ties on the incentives for production of effort, where family ties are defined as a … specified amount of this output with his sibling, if the latter's output is low. Siblings may be truly altruistic towards each … other, but not to a larger degree than dictated by the social norm. We compare such informal family insurance with …