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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238652
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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127070
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The Merger of Populations, the Incidence of Marriages, and Aggregate Unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179243
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International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687810
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International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Agnieszka Dorn - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700329
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International Migration, Human Capital Formation, and Saving
Stark, Oded - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087331
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Can the evolution of joint savings agreements counter the effect of higher costs of migration on its intensity?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2022
with the savings of another would-be migrant to pay for the cost. Saving jointly brings forward the timing of migration … increase in the cost of migration stimulates the formation of co-financing, joint-saving arrangements that enable would …-be migrants to cushion the impact of the increase. The evolution of joint-saving arrangements can create a time window during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260051
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Equal bequests and parental altruism: Compatibility or orthogonality?
Stark, Oded - 1998
The large amount of equal division of bequests by parents who otherwise would have compensated the earning differences 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291756
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Counter-compensatory inter-vivos transfers and parental altruism: Compatibility or orthogonality?
Stark, Oded; Zhang, Junsen - 2000
The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that bequests tend to be equal suggests that inter-vivos transfers should be strongly compensatory. Yet the available evidence is not in congruence with this implication. It has therefore been inferred that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292405
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On the demand for grandchildren: Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
Most private giving between living generations takes the form of tied transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the demonstration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293715