and explains why equal bequests to children whose earnings differ, and parental altruism toward these children, are not … mutually exclusive. -- parental altruism ; equal bequests …

The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that bequests tend to be equal … implication. It has therefore been inferred that the motive underlying inter-vivos transfers is not parental altruism. In this … the child whose earnings are higher. We show that rather than being orthogonal to parental altruism, counter …

We investigate the effects of altruism on migrants' decisions to send money home and on their households' decisions to … invest or to consume those remittances. Previous studies have devoted extensive attention to migrants' altruism toward … recipients and little to recipients' altruism toward migrants. We find that the migrant sends larger remittances home when he …

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 …

motivations underlying this behaviour. While the public goods-model of altruism has played a pivotal role in the economic work …. Altruism (or empathy) is only one of the many motivations leading to voluntary transfers. Transfers may also follow from a … interhousehold and intrafamily transfers. It is argued that the simple oppositions between pure altruism and warm glow or between …