We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal … care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to transfers of gifts inter vivos. We suggest that the equal division motive competes with traditional altruism: support … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of …

a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more … first becomes significant in the teenage years. -- other-regarding preferences ; egalitarianism ; altruism ; spite … ; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible …

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. …

We study the role and design of private and public insurance programs when informal care is uncertain. Children …'s degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care …

while children’s altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric … explained by the need to provide incentives to high-altruism children. The implementing contract is always such that social care …

stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …