We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of … steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is positively related to both level of altruism and altruism …

cultural background matter. -- Decision under pressure ; altruism ; social norms ; interdependent preferences ; excess of …

; tragic events and disasters ; survival ; quasi-natural experiment ; altruism …

-role behavior ; sabotage ; gift exchange ; social exchange ; conditional altruism ; reciprocity ; signaling game …

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

to transfers of gifts inter vivos. We suggest that the equal division motive competes with traditional altruism: support … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …, which also support the equal division motive. -- Inter vivos gifts ; equal divisions altruism ; sibling comparisons …