Chang, Yang-Ming; Weisman, Dennis L. - In: Southern Economic Journal 71 (2005) 4, pp. 821-836
This paper develops a noncooperative Nash model in which two siblings compete for their parents' financial transfers. Treating sibling rivalry as a “rent-seeking contest” and using a Tullock-Skaperdas contest success function, we derive the conditions under which more financial resources are...