In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that …

Using the inclusive fitness framework (Hamilton, 1964), this paper models family firms. The structure on altruism …. Family firm founders are always more altruistic toward related managers than their direct descendants, leading to …

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards … family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …

We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider "a family …

We propose a model of parental altruism in relation to children’s habit formation, as children are unaware of their …

We offer a theory of gender differences in parental altruism based on the asymmetry that female fertility is … Pleistocene, we derive evolutionarily stable, co-evolved male and female preferences for altruism towards one's children. We … demonstrate that there would be gender differences in parental altruism that depend on the relative abundance or scarcity of …