Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary … theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much …

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative … altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences … innovation. -- intergenerational preference transmission ; altruism ; paternalism ; entrepreneurship ; innovation …

's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care …

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

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …