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care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …
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that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
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This paper investigates how the presence of social capital affects the externality arising from status-seeking preference as a parable for inefficient antagonistic behavior. It is assumed that the stock of social capital is accumulating through joint social interaction between rational...
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We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...
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