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Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms and Social Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334735
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The relationship between altruism and equal sharing. Evidence from inter vivos transfer behavior
Halvorsen, Elin; Thoresen, Thor O. - 2005
Several studies reject the implications of the altruism model. In this study it is argued that parents who transfer … degree of income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968209
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Financing from Family and Friends
Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - 2012
The constraint on informal finance is commonly taken to be high costs and limited supply. But the majority of informal investors - family and friends - is often willing to supply funds at negative returns, and yet many borrowers tap family and friends only as a last resort. We explain this...
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Parents with an unemployed adult child: Consumption, income, and savings effects
Edwards, Kathryn Anne; Wenger, Jeffrey B. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-44
The risk of labor market, health, and asset-value shocks comprise profound retirement savings challenges for older workers. Parents, however, may experience added risk if their children experience adverse labor market shocks. Prior research has shown that parents support their children...
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Are Americans and Indians more altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? Evidence from a new international survey of bequest plans
Horioka, Charles Yuj - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002
altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324743
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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? Are the Japanese any different?
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; … - 2016
heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms. …
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Intergenerational transfers, demographic transition, and altruism: Problems in developing asia
Koda, Yoshitaka; Uruyos, Manachaya; Dheera-Aumpon, Siwapong - 2017
the degrees of filial and parental altruism and adjust them with their respective life expectancy and fertility rates. The … altruism than those in the other countries. Our welfare analyses reveal that the developing Asian countries must introduce more … filial altruism will trap the developing Asian countries at the current low levels of public old-age supports and social …
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Access to pensions, old-age support, and child investment in the People's Republic of China
Shan, Xiaoyue; Park, Albert - 2023
This paper studies how access to public pensions affects old-age support and child investment in traditional societies. Guided by predictions from an overlapping generations model, we analyze the influences of a new pension program in rural People's Republic of China, using a...
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Does the selfish life-cycle model apply in the case of Japan?
Horioka, Charles - 2020
prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …
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