migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … these competing explanations.Testing these predictions in the data gives support to the model of transfers under pressure or …

migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … these competing explanations.Testing these predictions in the data gives support to the model of transfers under pressure or …

migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and … exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under … these competing explanations. Testing these predictions in the data gives support to the model of transfers under pressure …

others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible … reciprocity game. Reciprocity is compared with other modes of transfers. Ways of explaining it are proposed. Its normative uses …

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and …

transfers from parents to children are gifts, and not temporary help to overcome liquidity constraints. Second, inter vivos … gifts are compensatory in the sense that life-time poorer children will receive higher transfers than their life-time richer …

transfer. In a second model, altruism is impure as the parents want the child to behave in a certain way: exchange and …. Tests usually conclude that the income pooling predicted by pure altruism is not observed, but family transfers are also far … consumption. This approximation cannot account for parents making transfers to adult children, children taking care of old parents …