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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 - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354604
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Altruism, environmental externality and fertility
Hirazawa, Makoto; Kamada, Kimiyoshi; Sato, Takashi - In: Environment and development economics 24 (2019) 3, pp. 317-338
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126730
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Exploring bequest intentions of Indian households
Nair, Smitha; Gopikumar, V.; Ajith, Anjaly; Raja … - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-11
This study examines the relationship between the access to homebuyer credits and housing satisfaction among those buying affordable apartments, using a sample of 1,000 respondents from our own survey in 2016 in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh Cities. Our regression analysis reveals the education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029688
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Post mortem reputation, compensatory gifts and equal bequests
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589028
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Inheritance taxation in a model with intergenerational time transfers
Belan, Pascal; Moussault, Erwan - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 20 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
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Intergenerational altruism and house prices : evidence from bequest tax reforms in Italy
Bellettini, Giorgio; Taddei, Filippo; Zanella, Giulio - 2014
We identify the degree of intergenerational altruism in an OLG framework à la Barro exploiting the quasi … parameter of interest via the effect of changes in the tax rate on house prices. We find that the intergenerational altruism …
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The division of parental transfers in Europe
Olivera, Javier - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755847
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Why do people leave bequests? : for love or self-interest?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014
that there are large inter-country differences in the degree of selfishness and altruism, with the Japanese and Chinese … religiosity appear to be the main cause of inter-country differences in the degree of selfishness and altruism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348289
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Heterogeneous bequests and social inequalities
Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Thai Ha Huy; Pakhnin, … - 2023
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 …
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On the long-run fluctuations of inheritance in two-sector OLG models
Pelgrin, Florian; Venditti, Alain - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434845