. Importantly, we find that socio-economic status of a family has no explanatory power as soon as we control for parents' economic …

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 … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the …

parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic … 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 …

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 … EU countries. To assess the robustness of these correlations, we use siblings in the Panel and we investigate the …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and children in particular. We introduce an … appropriate econometric methodology and, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000-2002, find that the … parents' self-reported happiness depends positively, albeit not very strongly, on the happiness of adult children who moved …

to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about … the responses of parents and their children. Exploring heterogeneity in the strength of transmission, we find that gender … by parents in terms of risk attitudes. Interestingly, for trust there is no impact of family size or birth order. There …