Michel, Philippe; Thibault, Emmanuel; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1055-1106). 2006
This chapter surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an altruistic concern only for their children, who in...
