System and economic growth in an overlapping generation economy, in which altruistic parents finance the education of their children and leave bequests. Unlike the existing literature, we model intergenerational altruism by assuming that children's income during adulthood is an argument of...

This paper introduces unfunded pay-as-you-go public pensions in a two-period overlapping generations economy with endogenous lifetime à la Chakraborty (2004). We study the transitional dynamics and steady states outcomes showing that the public provision of health services may have not only the...