that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social …

that there are large inter-country differences in the degree of selfishness and altruism, with the Japanese and Chinese … religiosity appear to be the main cause of inter-country differences in the degree of selfishness and altruism. …

prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …

We identify the degree of intergenerational altruism in an OLG framework à la Barro exploiting the quasi …-experimental variation generated by reforms of bequest taxation (estate or inheritance tax, in the U.S.) and taxes on inter vivos real estate … parameter of interest via the effect of changes in the tax rate on house prices. We find that the intergenerational altruism …

The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …