Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2007
other, but not to a larger degree than dictated by the social norm. We compare such informal family insurance with … actuarially fair formal insurance. We show that coerced family altruism reduces individual efforts in equilibrium. However … show that if family members are sufficiently altruistic to each other, then informal family insurance by way of coerced …