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 quot;value of lifequot; type of framework. We are able to … lifequot; and on intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis …

research university. Inter alia, the data include information on the ages of the alumni's children, whether they applied for … that donations will increase the likelihood of admission for their children and if this belief helps motivate their giving …, then the pattern of giving should vary systematically with the ages of their children, whether the children ultimately …

heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms …

This paper examines the bequest\gift behavior of altruistic parents who do not know their children's abilities and … cannot observe their children's work effort. Parents are likely to respond to this information problem by making larger … bequests to higher earning children and by using their transfers implicitly either to tax at the margin low earning children or …

We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents care about their child but … the child does not reciprocate. Parents and children make investments in the child's education, investments for other … increases the educational attainment of children whose families are disproportionately likely to under-invest in education …

into account the care-giving responsibilities for young children and teenagers but not for older adults …