The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …

prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …

that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social …

transfer. In a second model, altruism is impure as the parents want the child to behave in a certain way: exchange and … mechanisms. Firstly, in the so-called pure altruism model, the parent's utility is augmented by the utility of his child. This …. Tests usually conclude that the income pooling predicted by pure altruism is not observed, but family transfers are also far …

altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …

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 …

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. …

Most models of family transfers consider only two generations and focus on two motives: altruism and exchange. They … (against altruism) with small compensatory effects of transfers both between and within generations, and (against exchange … transfers, such as strategic altruism, models with endogenous heterogeneous behavioral regimes (Becker, Cigno), and especially …