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Financial transfers from parents to adult children
Yang, Siqiang; Ripoll, Marla - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 208 (2023), pp. 286-303
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Chapter 13 Microeconomic models of family transfers
Laferrère, Anne; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 889-969). 2006
mechanisms. Firstly, in the so-called pure altruism model, the parent's utility is augmented by the utility of his child. This … transfer. In a second model, altruism is impure as the parents want the child to behave in a certain way: exchange and …. Tests usually conclude that the income pooling predicted by pure altruism is not observed, but family transfers are also far …
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Chapter 16 Wealth transfer taxation: a survey of the theoretical literature
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1107-1134). 2006
The purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative: we are looking at the design of an optimal tax structure from the standpoint of both equity and efficiency. The gist of this survey is that the optimal design crucially depends...
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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...
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Parents with an unemployed adult child: Consumption, income, and savings effects
Edwards, Kathryn Anne; Wenger, Jeffrey B. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-44
The risk of labor market, health, and asset-value shocks comprise profound retirement savings challenges for older workers. Parents, however, may experience added risk if their children experience adverse labor market shocks. Prior research has shown that parents support their children...
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Parents with an unemployed adult child : consumption, income, and savings effects
Edwards, Kathryn Anne; Wenger, Jeffrey B. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-44
The risk of labor market, health, and asset-value shocks comprise profound retirement savings challenges for older workers. Parents, however, may experience added risk if their children experience adverse labor market shocks. Prior research has shown that parents support their children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195770
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Chapter 14 Altruism, exchange or indirect reciprocity: what do the data on family transfers show?
Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 971-1053). 2006
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 …
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Identity and private transfers of time and money
Nicińska, Anna - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 191-218
We introduce the perspective of identity economics to a formal model of rational choice of private transfers to examine the impact of geographical proximity on optimal time and money transfers within and outside of families. We argue that identities affect private transfers through the...
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The Influence of Altruistic Preferences on the Race to the Bottom of Welfare States
Hendel, Ulrich - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 70 (2014) 2, pp. 200-217
Common public-finance models suggest that tax competition between welfare states leads to a zero-taxation outcome in the absence of migration costs or other barriers to migration. This paper develops a two-region framework with mobile altruistic taxpayers and immobile welfare recipients. Tax...
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Solidarités familiales par la démonstration
Jellal, Mohamed; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Revue économique 54 (2003) 4, pp. 785-810
Three theoretical hypotheses can explain the motives behind familial transfers given to the elders : altruism, exchange …
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