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 …