We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of … steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is positively related to both level of altruism and altruism …

imperfect credit markets and high economic growth rates. In this paper, we analyze the role of parental altruism on economic … that a newly constructed index of parental altruism, orthogonal to income effects, exhibits high cross-country correlations … with model-implied measures of parental altruism at different levels of credit market development. …