, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution … renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

mixture of true and coerced altruism between family members. We model families as pairs of siblings. Each sibling exerts … actuarially fair formal insurance. We show that coerced family altruism reduces individual efforts in equilibrium. However … a certain degree of coerced family altruism is robust as a social norm in a society of selfish individuals. Finally, we …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and children in particular. We introduce an …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and adult children who moved away from home …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and children in particular. We introduce an …

. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … care is not motivated entirely by altruism. We show that children provide parental care when their parents are wealthy …

This study investigates the prevalence and extent of altruism by examining the relationship between parents' and their …

We demonstrate how altruism can flourish in a population of nonaltruists. We assume that each individual plays a one …