altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …

transfers may be driven not only by altruism, but also by exchange considerations. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing … from parents to children and time transfers from children to parents, the empirical evidence rejects pure altruism in favor …

intergenerational altruism among Italian households. The Italian socio-economic framework represents an interesting ground to test for … altruism. Further, I evaluate how restrictive is the assumption of a zero correlation between the clan’s Euler errors and the …

which transfers may be driven not only by altruism, but also by exchange considerations. We use data from the Survey of … transfers from parents to children and time transfers from children to parents, the empirical evidence rejects pure altruism in …

We examine the role of altruism in determining optimal transfers from a principal (a mother) to selfish agents (her … exchange motive for transfers in the symmetric informational regime we study. However, both altruism and exchange are important … motives under asymmetric information. We show that altruism facilitates transfer-attention exchange arrangements with certain …

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