intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …

motivated by altruism. Specifically, the paper tests whether an increase by one dollar in the income of parents actively making … standard altruism model augmented to include uncertain and liquidity constraints. These additional elements pin down the timing … heterogeneity across families in the degree of altruism. The findings strongly reject the altruism hypothesis. Redistributing one …

contrast to the Life Cycle and Keynesian models, the altruism model implies that the extended family is the basic economic … decision-making unit. According to this model the extended family is linked through altruism and, as a result, acts as if it … fully shares resources. In the altruism model nondistortionary changes in the distribution of resources across households …