Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 5,231
Cover Image
Financial transfers from parents to adult children
Yang, Siqiang; Ripoll, Marla - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 208 (2023), pp. 286-303
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014417955
Cover Image
Chapter 13 Microeconomic models of family transfers
Laferrère, Anne; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 889-969). 2006
mechanisms. Firstly, in the so-called pure altruism model, the parent's utility is augmented by the utility of his child. This … transfer. In a second model, altruism is impure as the parents want the child to behave in a certain way: exchange and …. Tests usually conclude that the income pooling predicted by pure altruism is not observed, but family transfers are also far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023665
Cover Image
Chapter 16 Wealth transfer taxation: a survey of the theoretical literature
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1107-1134). 2006
The purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative: we are looking at the design of an optimal tax structure from the standpoint of both equity and efficiency. The gist of this survey is that the optimal design crucially depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023662
Cover Image
Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
Cover Image
Chapter 14 Altruism, exchange or indirect reciprocity: what do the data on family transfers show?
Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 971-1053). 2006
Most models of family transfers consider only two generations and focus on two motives: altruism and exchange. They … transfers, such as strategic altruism, models with endogenous heterogeneous behavioral regimes (Becker, Cigno), and especially … (against altruism) with small compensatory effects of transfers both between and within generations, and (against exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023664
Cover Image
The Influence of Altruistic Preferences on the Race to the Bottom of Welfare States
Hendel, Ulrich - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 70 (2014) 2, pp. 200-217
Common public-finance models suggest that tax competition between welfare states leads to a zero-taxation outcome in the absence of migration costs or other barriers to migration. This paper develops a two-region framework with mobile altruistic taxpayers and immobile welfare recipients. Tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903120
Cover Image
Sharing information
Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 689-698
Customers write book reviews for Amazon.com and rate stores at BizRate.com. Car drivers call up radio stations to report traffic jams or radar traps. In many cases individuals share their information to the benefit of an unknown group of recipients, even though doing so is costly for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573028
Cover Image
It Hurts To Ask
Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388842
Cover Image
For love or reward? : characterising preference for giving to parents in an experimental setting
Porter, Maria; Adams, Abi - 2014
This paper examines the motivation for intergenerational transfers between adult children and their parents, and the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, in an experimental setting. Participants in our experiment play a series of dictator games with parents and strangers, in which we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379950
Cover Image
Chapter 22 Reciprocity, altruism, and cooperative production
Putterman, Louis - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1409-1435). 2006
considers the roles that altruism and reciprocity might play in cooperatives, and it discusses the recent, largely experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023656