This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … 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 …

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 … of it was intended to illuminate issues of compelling policy importance, such as declining fertility and population aging …

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 …

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 …

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …

reverting negative gradients in early life health and eventual fertility. These new stylised facts and results suggest the …