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the degrees of filial and parental altruism and adjust them for their respective life expectancy and fertility rates. The … adjusted degree of filial altruism tends to be low in developing Asia. Our welfare analyses reveal that the developing Asian … low adjusted degree of filial altruism may trap the developing Asian countries at the low levels of public old‐age support …
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This paper studies how access to public pensions affects old-age support and child investment in traditional societies. Guided by predictions from an overlapping generations model, we analyze the influences of a new pension program in rural People's Republic of China, using a...
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We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time … relate to altruism and to impatience and we reason that long-lived dynasties will be characterized by a higher degree of … altruism and a lower degree of impatience than short-lived dynasties. …
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This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
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altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
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heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms. …
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choice and labor market outcomes. Driven by both altruism and paternalism, parents make transfers to their children which can …
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Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much of it was intended to illuminate issues of...
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the degrees of filial and parental altruism and adjust them with their respective life expectancy and fertility rates. The … altruism than those in the other countries. Our welfare analyses reveal that the developing Asian countries must introduce more … filial altruism will trap the developing Asian countries at the current low levels of public old-age supports and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944170
This paper studies how access to public pensions affects old-age support and child investment in traditional societies. Guided by predictions from an overlapping generations model, we analyze the influences of a new pension program in rural People's Republic of China, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549276