The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …

a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …

binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents … characteristics, and is attenuated for smarter children. The results suggest that less educated parents are either less efficient to … instill social norms or their children less able to acquire them. …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical … treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

behavior. I consider two general motivations for remitting: altruism and self-interest. Using a heteroskedastic Tobit with a …