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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 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006

Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related...

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Family Social Norms and Child Labor

Epstein, Gil - 2021

Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...

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Family Social Norms and Child Labor

Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021

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The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022

We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...

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