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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
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The labour supply effect of education maintenance allowance and its implications for parental altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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Samuelson's contributions to population theory and overlapping generations in economics
Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019
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...
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Can altruism lead to a willingness to take risks?
Stark, Oded - 2023
study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will … ability to make altruistic transfers? Or does altruism induce a person to resort to risky behavior because the reward for a … averse than a comparable person who is not altruistic: altruism is a cause of greater willingness to take risks. The finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423411
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Income transfers, welfare and family decisions
Andaluz Funcia, Joaquín (contributor);  … - 2007
stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer within a relationship of one-sided altruism. In the second stage, the … compensatory way in an altruism model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595983
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Is there such a thing as a family constitution? : A test based on credit rationing
Cigno, Alessandro; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Rosati, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
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Giving and sorting among friends : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013
Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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Optimal accumulation in an endogenous growth setting with human capital
Docquier, Frédéric (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper considers a three-overlapping-generations model of endogenous growth wherein human capital is the engine of growth. It first contrasts the laissez-faire and the optimal solutions. Three possible accumulation regimes are distinguished. Then it discusses a standard set of tax-transfer...
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