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We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
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We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
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We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
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We analyze the role of "the" utility discount rate and its implications to generation-specific and societal altruism … have to be distinguished: An (inverse) altruism-parameter and a social discount rate. High levels of the altruism … - as well as altruism-models and, additionally, the altruism-parameter has to be infinitely high. This shows clearly that …
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Tenure security and subsistence needs influence the choice between unexploited topsoil and investment in children's human capital as the mode of transfer of wealth. We develop an overlapping generations model of a representative rural household to inform this choice. Using a unique...
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This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
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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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