each other’s payoff. A positive, negative or zero weight represents altruism, spite or complete selfishness, respectively …) payoff can only increase or remain unchanged with an increasing degree of altruism. …

research on demographic transition assumed altruism as the main element explaining the increase in fertility rates, this paper … does not, since altruism seems irrelevant over this period. The relationship between parents and children is part of a … nineteenth century, parental behavior was not compatible with altruism. I therefore present a model that suits the social norms …

paper, we construct a neoclassical growth model where intergenerational altruism is endogenous and entails costly sacrifices … conditions, altruism determines the level of intergenerational bequests and ultimately the accumulation of physical capital and … accumulate altruism in the long run whenever the ‘marginal degree of altruism’ is sufficiently high. Second, we find that the …