" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto … efficient allocation of consumption while households with "weaker" familial ties (e.g. an extended family household) do not. We … propose a theoretical model of the household based on the idea that altruism between household members vary with familial ties …

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 …