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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015
This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …
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The Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption
Hock, Heinrich - 2006
We examine the dynamic interaction of the population age structure, economic dependency, and fertility, paying particular attention to the role of intergenerational transfers. In the short run, a reduction in fertility produces a "demographic dividend" that allows for higher consumption. In the...
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Transfers
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1992
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Generational accounting around the world
Auerbach, Alan J. (ed.); Kotlikoff, Laurence J. (contributor) - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000673067
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Developments in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2009
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Bequests as Signals : An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2000
In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multichild families divide their estates exactly equally among their children. In contrast, intra vivos gifts are usually unequal. These findings challenge the validity of existing theories regarding the determination of...
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A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - 2000
Whether and how estates and gifts should be taxed has long been a controversial subject, and the approach to estate and gift taxation varies among developed countries. Arguments for and against various forms of transfer taxation have focused on concerns about the distribution of income and...
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Induced Retirement, Social Security, and the Pyramid Mirage
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2000
Does Social Security redistribute across cohorts? Or is it a program for purchasing the jobs' of the elderly? I formalize both models, showing how they have some predictions in common the most important of which is that generational accounts have the appearance of a pyramid scheme.' I also...
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Human Capital, Heterogeneity, and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility
Han, Song - 2000
Some of the important implications of the parental investment model of intergenerational mobility have been derived under the assumption that parental income is the main source of heterogeneity. We explicitly model the variability and inheritability of innate' earnings ability and the...
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Games Daughters and Parents Play : Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers
Hao, Lingxin - 2000
In this paper, we examine the empirical implications of reputation formation using a game-theoretic model of intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in repeated two-stage games in which daughters' decision to have a child as a teenager and the willingness of parents to...
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