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Rotten Parents and Child Labor
Bommier, Antoine; Dubois, Pierre - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2002
We show that taking into account the consequences of child labor on both childhood welfare and human capital investment, instead of focusing exclusively on the human capital dimension, brings new insights on the economic analysis of child labor. In particular, there are new sources of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027406
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker?s rotten kids mechan- ism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of e¢fficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010968952
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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being
Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2013
We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991174
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker’s rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva’s (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877787
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker?s rotten kids mechan- ism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of e¢fficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004749
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Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants' assimilation?
Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2012
Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955003
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On the economics of others
Stark, Oded - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2013
. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism … deprivation. I provide examples of domains in which the incorporation of altruism and relative deprivation can point to novel … consideration of relative deprivation can substitute for the prevalence of altruism, and vice versa. I conclude that this is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955013
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Governmental Transfers and Altruistic Private Transfers
Glazer, Amihai; Kondo, Hiroki - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2012
An altruistic agent who may aid a person with a low income may induce that person to exert little effort to increase his income. Such behavior generates a Good Samaritan Dilemma, in which welfare is lower than when no one is altruistic. Governmental transfers, which restrict reallocation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959976
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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being
Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - Econometica - 2013
We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638848
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Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries
Molina, José Alberto; Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
main results show evidence of strong altruism effects, but these estimated effects differ across countries, differ between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761669