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Motives for Private Transfers over the Life Cycle: An Analytical Framework and Evidence for Peru

Cox, Donald; Eser, Zekeriya; Jimenez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

This paper tests for the motives for private income transfers. We consider two motives: altruism and exchange. The … recipient pre-transfer income, which contradicts a key prediction of the strong form of the altruism hypothesis but is …

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Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland

Cox, Donald; Jimenez, Emmanuel; Okrasa, Wlodek - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

Can Eastern European families most severely impoverished during the transition to capitalism rely on private family safety nets? This question is likely critical for the transition's success, but little is known about family networks in Eastern Europe. We analyze newly available Polish household...

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Private Inter-household Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s

Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2002

This chapter uses data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS) to describe patterns of money transfers between households. Rapid economic growth during the 1990's did little to diminish the importance of private transfers in Vietnam. Private transfers are large and...

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Private Safety Nets through Inter-Household Transfers: The Case of Viet Nam

Cox, Donald; Fetzer, James; Jiminez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

This paper uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey (VNLSS) to provide a snapshot of private transfer activity. We investigate private transfer patterns along a variety of dimensions, such as age, household resources, demographic make-up of the household and characteristics of the region of...

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Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect

Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the child's conduct is conditioned by the parents' example....

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How Responsive are Private Transfers to Income? Evidence from a Laissez-Faire Economy

Cox, Donald; Hansen, Bruce E.; Jimenez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1997

behavior. Undoubtedly most of this interest is fueled by altruism's often pivotal role in economic models and policy issues … models of Becker and Barro- -is lacking, at least for the United States. The failure to find strong evidence for altruism … of evidence for altruism in a developed country like the United States is that its substantial public transfers may have …

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Altruism and Climate

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2006

analyze how the equilibrium outcome depends on altruism and climate for ex ante identical individuals. We also consider (a …) "coerced altruism," that is, situations where a social norm dictates how output be shared, (b) the effects of insurance markets … ,and (c) the role of institutional quality. The evolutionary robustness of altruism is analyzed and we study how this …

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