Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households …This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from … over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of …

We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and … transfers are only weakly related to income differences. Richer siblings give more to parents and receive less. Among parents … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …

under the assumption that parental income is the main source of heterogeneity. We explicitly model the variability and … optimal family responses to country-specific institutions for accumulating human capital …

The intergenerational elasticity of income is generally considered one of the best summary measures of the degree to … which a society gives equal opportunity of success to all its members, irrespective of their family background. We present a … equilibrium level of mobility. Contrary to what it is generally assumed, a low correlation between father income and son income is …

child reaches the top quintile of the national income distribution starting from a family in the bottom quintile is 4.4% in … income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … childhood is hard--as available evidence suggests--uninsurable income risk can negatively impact the labor market prospects of …

developing countries. These intra-family flows mean that public policies may affect a very different group of people than the one … eligibility. We also find that the drop in labor supply diminishes with family size, as the pension money is split over more … findings suggest that power within the family might play an important role: (1) labor supply drops less when the pension is …

increase of one dollar in the income of the recipient, accompanied by a decrease of one dollar in the income of the donor … vivos transfers and the transitory income of the recipient. This evidence suggest that dynamic models can provide insights …