Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many … developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially … apply a two-step method akin to two stage least squares to deal with the endogeneity of remittances and potential …

“linked” by the young spouses. Children contribute part of their time to a household (couple) public good and provide …

this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …

reflecting low altruism—a discount rate on children’s utility greater than the world interest rate—and I examine the implications … spending on debt and retiree entitlements. In the model, altruism towards children determines bequests, government debt, and … the time-path of consumption. Altruism towards parents influences incentives to default. If altruism is low, voters demand …

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …

decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data …-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …