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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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This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
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Altruistic parents, who differ in income, make financial transfers to their children, who differ in ability. The … two policy tools: a subsidy to those who participate in education and a proportional income tax. Not all children … participate; a larger subsidy encourages participation, and a larger income tax discourages it. The parents, prior to making …
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reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children …
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parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from … welfare participation on children's welfare participation in the general population, as well as the average causal effect for …
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Is there a link between public debt and wealth inequality? Could government bondholders use intra-generational redistribution strategically to make the repayment of debt politically viable? Using a two-generations game-theoretic model, we identify coordination and divide-and-conquer as key...
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We describe a “business as usual” (BAU) economy in which pollution is a by-product of productive activity by the current generation but “damages” production for future generations. Over time, conditions in the BAU economy become dire: it gets increasingly polluted, consumption falls and...
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