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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999

The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...

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Monopolistic screening under learning by doing

Gärtner, Dennis - 2007

This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that...

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Synchronous Leisure, Jointness and Household Labor Supply

Hallberg, Daniel - 2002

This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...

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Happiness functions with preference interdependence and heterogeneity: The case of altruism within the family

Bruhin, Adrian; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007

This study investigates the prevalence and extent of altruism by examining the relationship between parents' and their …

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Goal structures in family firms: empirical evidence on the relationship between firm and family goals

Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Braun, Reiner; Schraml, Stephanie - 2009

Goal structures in family firms seems of particular interest to the field as the overall orientation and the objectives … of family firms are determined in an area of potential conflict between the two subsystems of firm and family. We asked … shareholders of German family firms to rate the importance of certain goals in the organization's management. By doing a principal …

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Endogenous fertility and intergenerational transfers: The significance of the sibship size effect

Brezis, Elise S.; Dos Santos Ferreira, Rodolphe - 2012

Since the seminal work of Becker, the analysis of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents …

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Time for Children, a Study of Parents' Time Allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...

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Generosity across contexts

Davis, Alexander L.; Miller, John H.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2011

Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations, while generosity in non-laboratory contexts often involves the allocation of consumption goods or non-monetary harm. Psychological evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts. We compare generosity...

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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012

altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

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Comparative statics of altruism amd spite

Milchtaich, Igal - 2008

each other's payoff. A positive, negative or zero weight represents altruism, spite or complete selfishness, respectively …) payoff can only increase or remain unchanged with an increasing degree of altruism. …

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