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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Cremer, Helmuth - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal … care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the …

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Thankworthy parental altruism and children's habit-formation

Zhang, Lin; Ikeda, Shinsuke - 2013

We propose a model of parental altruism in relation with child habit formation, where children are unaware of their …

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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth

Bauer, Michal (contributor); Chytilová, Julie (contributor) - 2008

development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. -- growth ; human capital … ; education ; time discounting ; discount rate ; poverty …

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Chapter 10. Conflict and Cooperation Within the Family, and Between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security

Cigno, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 609-660). 2016

The early contributions to the microeconomic literature assume that only market goods yield utility, and that the only way adults can secure the consumption of these goods in old age is by saving. The more recent contributions recognize, however, that the elderly derive utility also from goods...

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Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods : A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange

Rangel, Antonio - 2000

-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the … relationship between them. A FIG is a transfer from present to future generations, like parental investments in education and the …

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Long-term care and lazy rotten kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2013

This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The model...

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Long-term care and lazy rotten kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2013

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Chapter 10 : Overview of Valuation Methods

Graves, Philip E. - 2013

This is Chapter 10 of Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach and it provides an overview of the environmental valuations commonly used in environmental economics prior to detailed treatments in later chapters

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Environmental Economics : An Integrated Approach: Preface and Organization for Instructors

Graves, Philip E. - 2013

This is the Preface to Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach, and it provides a description of the approach taken throughout the book. The approach is to first understand how environmental policy would be conducted in a world of "perfect information," then move on to sources of...

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Dynamic Governance Innovation

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2013

This article frames environmentally sound innovation in the context of transnational network theory with the goal of setting forth a preliminary framework for international legal policy coherence. I consider how network dynamics can facilitate broad diffusion of environmentally sound...

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