compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous … we examine why spending patterns differ between mothers and fathers, e.g., altruism, personal returns to investing in … children. We find that fathers have a lower WTP for their daughters' human capital than their sons' human capital, whereas …

We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents care about their child but … the child does not reciprocate. Parents and children make investments in the child's education, investments for other … educational attainment of children whose families are disproportionately likely to under-invest in education. Financial aid has no …

research university. Inter alia, the data include information on the ages of the alumni's children, whether they applied for … that donations will increase the likelihood of admission for their children and if this belief helps motivate their giving …, then the pattern of giving should vary systematically with the ages of their children, whether the children ultimately …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

This paper examines the bequest\gift behavior of altruistic parents who do not know their children's abilities and … cannot observe their children's work effort. Parents are likely to respond to this information problem by making larger … bequests to higher earning children and by using their transfers implicitly either to tax at the margin low earning children or …

heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms …

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact …

benefits as well as costs. Among the former, one of the most important is lower costs for migrants' remittances. Some of the …

By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …