This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …

or the exchange motive (much stronger than in the United States), but we find that their caregiving behavior is also … heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms. …

prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …

The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …

-cycle model as well as saving motives that are consistent with the altruism model are important in Europe implies that the two … suggests that this model is far more applicable in Europe than is the altruism model. Moreover, our finding that the … intergenerational transfers motive, which is the saving motive that most exemplifies the altruism model, accounts for only about one …

. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … care is not motivated entirely by altruism. We show that children provide parental care when their parents are wealthy …

This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …

or the exchange motive (much stronger than in the United States), but we find that their caregiving behavior is also … heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms …

. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … care is not motivated entirely by altruism. We show that children provide parental care when their parents are wealthy …