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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012

parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic … altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

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Tax Avoidance and Intra-Family Transfers

Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry - 2005

of transfer taxes on altruistic parents' transfers to their children. Using a theoretical model we find that altruistic … parents do not necessarily tax minimize. However, in some cases when they do, there is an infinitely large excess burden of a …

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Car Ownership and Status

Verhoef, Erik T.; van Wee, Bert - 2000

, further increases in income will not lead to a significantincrease in happiness. Additional income willprobably often be spent …

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Social Status and Group Norms

Seinen, Ingrid; Schram, Arthur - 2001

This paper provides experimental evidence showing that indirectreciprocity may important in economic decision making and in thedevelopment of group norms. We study a `repeated helping game' withrandom pairing in large groups, with individuals equally dividedbetween donors and recipients. Donors...

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Identity and Commitment: Sen's Conception of the Individual

Davis, John B. - 2004

This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one advanced in Davis (2003c). The paper...

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Status-Seeking in Violent Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - 2006

This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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Bling bling taxation and the fiscal virtues of hip hop

Engström, Per - 2010

The paper extends Ng's (1987) model of optimal taxation of diamond goods - goods that are valued solely for their costliness. We extend his findings by analyzing how other goods should be taxed in the presence of pure diamond goods; modified Ramsey rules are derived in a basic single-type model...

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Recession and child labor: A theoretical analysis

Chowdhury, Sahana Roy - 2013

theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is … endogenized; as their choice of substituting child labor income by their own is endogenous. Interestingly, income shocks have … dearth of demand for parents' labor supply that support their CL or NCL decisions. It infers that any in-kind transfer or …

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Winners and Losers from a Demographic Shock under Different Intergenerational Transfer Schemes

Zamac, Jovan - 2005

schemes. The effects on lifetime income and utility for different generations, as well as the effects on factor prices, are …

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