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Does Child Labor Decrease When Parental Incomes Rise?

Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A. - EconWPA - 2003

In the presence of two-sided altruism, i.e., when parents and children care about each other’s utility, increases in …

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Parental Wealth Effects on Living Standards and Asset Holdings: Results from Chile

Torche, Florencia; Spilerman, Seymour - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines aspects of the replication of inequality across generations and attempts to assess the extent to which parental resources influence the life chances and living standards of adult children. The data come from a survey of 4,400 households in Chile that focused on parental...

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Intergenerational transfers in rural households: A game theoretical approach

Mendes, Américo - EconWPA - 2005

The household membership decision is viewed as a “research project” where the offspring invests in human and non human capital to influence the probability of finding an alternative to the parental household. The problem is formulated as a differential game between a selfish offspring and...

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Intergenerational Transfers, Lifetime Welfare and Resource Preservation

Valente, Simone - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the welfare properties of distortionary transfers in a life-cycle growth model where natural capital is private property. The main result is that, under credible pre-commitment, each newborn generation prefers positive taxes-subsidies to laissez-faire conditions when the...

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Savings, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Distribution of Wealth

Ocampo, Ignacio Ponce; Yuki, Kazuhiro - EconWPA - 2005

without earnings uncertainty, and one without altruism. …

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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004

instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing controls on individual fixed effects, we find strong evidence of altruism …

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002

Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Altruism, Spite and Competition in Bargaining Games

Montero, Maria - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows that altruism may be beneficial in bargaining when there is competition for bargaining partners. In a …. However, this advantage is eroded as the discount factor increases, and if players are perfectly patient altruism and spite …

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Two-sided altruism, Lindahl Equilibrium, and Pareto Optimality in Overlapping Generations Models

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

, recasting it into a Lindahl equilibrium framework. It has been shown that altruism towards parents provides an alternative … a sufficiently strong altruism towards parents can change a Pareto inefficient Samuelsonian economy with negative … proposes an ethical principle to supplement the equilibrium theory for guiding agents in their choice of the degree of altruism …

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What do gifts buy? A model of philanthropy and tithing based on prestige and warm glow.

Harbaugh, William T. - EconWPA - 1996

Charities publicize the donations they receive, generally according to dollar categories rather than the exact amount. Donors in turn tend to give the minimum amount necessary to get into a category. These facts suggest that donors have a taste for having their donations made public. This paper...

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