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Fiscal incidence when both individual welfare and family structure matter: The case of subsidization of home-care for the elderly
Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - 2012
the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the … subsidy for home care paid to the parents be defined, in budgetary or in welfare terms, and what does simulation tell us about … the distribution of benefits between the generations? We address these issues analytically and with simulation (using data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280827
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Fiscal Incidence When Both Individual Welfare and Family Structure Matter: The Case of Subsidization of Home -care for the Elderly
Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2010
and with simulation the measureme nt of the fiscal incidence of programs that subsidize home care for the elderly, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472295
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
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Is altruism important for understanding the long-run effects of social security?
Fuster, Luisa - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997
This paper quantifies the effects of social security on capital accumulation and wealth distribution in a life cycle framework with altruistic individuals. The main findings of this paper are that the current U.S. social security system has a significant impact on capital accumulation and wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772143
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Remittances and their effect on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343282
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252137
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252667
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Risk preference and child labour : econometric evidence
Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020
The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic reasons but also as insurance against future income shocks. Hence, the allocation of the child's time between school and work is a function of the risk preference of the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200935
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325523
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333302