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Purpose – The act of giving a gift at Christmas is a form of consumption that invokes different levels of involvement …. The purpose of this paper is to explore and measure involvement in parental Christmas gift giving and giving branded items …
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Purpose – An important part of the Christmas ritual is the request tradition. Parents ask their children what they … styles of family communication relate to the socialization of children into consumption and Christmas. This exploratory study … would like for Christmas, respond to a child's request or often initiate such Christmas communication exchanges. These …
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This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent - grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 European countries and Israel from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE). We show that maternal grandparents look after grandchildren and provide financial or...
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We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we offer is that a parentś immune system is refreshed by a childś infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing thin. With the boosted immune system, the parent has...
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Family is one of the most important socio-cultural factors which reflects on a man's behavior. Contemporarily, young … choices of individual members of households. Most often, in spite of coming of age and leaving family home, they still have an … impact on the behavior of family members. The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of children over 18 (generation …
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Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
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