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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...

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Motives for Private Transfers over the Life Cycle: An Analytical Framework and Evidence for Peru

Cox, Donald; Eser, Zekeriya; Jimenez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

This paper tests for the motives for private income transfers. We consider two motives: altruism and exchange. The … recipient pre-transfer income, which contradicts a key prediction of the strong form of the altruism hypothesis but is …

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Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland

Cox, Donald; Jimenez, Emmanuel; Okrasa, Wlodek - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

Can Eastern European families most severely impoverished during the transition to capitalism rely on private family safety nets? This question is likely critical for the transition's success, but little is known about family networks in Eastern Europe. We analyze newly available Polish household...

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Private Inter-household Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s

Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2002

This chapter uses data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS) to describe patterns of money transfers between households. Rapid economic growth during the 1990's did little to diminish the importance of private transfers in Vietnam. Private transfers are large and...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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 …

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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...

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