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altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
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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 …
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This paper studies how access to public pensions affects old-age support and child investment in traditional societies. Guided by predictions from an overlapping generations model, we analyze the influences of a new pension program in rural People's Republic of China, using a...
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prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …
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Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much of it was intended to illuminate issues of...
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that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social …
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the degrees of filial and parental altruism and adjust them for their respective life expectancy and fertility rates. The … adjusted degree of filial altruism tends to be low in developing Asia. Our welfare analyses reveal that the developing Asian … low adjusted degree of filial altruism may trap the developing Asian countries at the low levels of public old‐age support …
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The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …
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Most models of family transfers consider only two generations and focus on two motives: altruism and exchange. They … transfers, such as strategic altruism, models with endogenous heterogeneous behavioral regimes (Becker, Cigno), and especially … (against altruism) with small compensatory effects of transfers both between and within generations, and (against exchange …
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