How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We … their own parents when children are present to observe such transfers. Parents who desire old-age support have an incentive … to behave appropriately. The idea that the parents' behavior is aimed at inculcating desirable behavior in their children …

transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand … for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own … children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of …

incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as … sons with children or childless offspring. Data on the distance between the children's location and the parents' location …

incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as … sons with children or childless offspring. Data on the distance between the children's location and the parents' location …

among their children is attributed to the cost associated with unequal bequests. This paper identifies a source of this cost … and explains why equal bequests to children whose earnings differ, and parental altruism toward these children, are not …

paper we present an argument showing why parents who are equally altruistic toward their children optimally transfer more to …-compensating transfers emanate from such altruism. A key point in the analysis is that parents and children are interlinked in a rich web of …

transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand … for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own … children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of …