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Why do people leave bequests? : for love or self-interest?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348289
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Is the selfish life-cycle model more applicable in Japan and, if so, why? : a literature survey
Horioka, Charles - 2020
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291218
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Does the selfish life-cycle model apply in the case of Japan?
Horioka, Charles - 2020
prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195738
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Beggar-thy-parents? : a lifecycle model of intergenerational altruism
Cho, Sang-wook Stanley (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798203
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Are Americans and Indians more altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? : evidence from a new international survey of bequest plans
Horioka, Charles - 2014
This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354604
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The sustainability of the pay-as-you-go system with falling birth rates
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - 2002
altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326408
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Essays in macroeconomics and international economies
Cho, Sang-wook - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971781
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Saving Motives over the Life-Cycle
Pashchenko, Svetlana - 2020
A major challenge in the study of saving behavior is how to disentangle different motives for saving. We approach this question in the context of an entire life-cycle model. Specifically, we identify the importance of different saving motives by simultaneously accounting for wealth accumulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835785
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Predictable Life-Cycle Shocks, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio E. - 2006
Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733915
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Why do Europeans save? : micro-evidence from the household finance and consumption survey
Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - 2024
-cycle model as well as saving motives that are consistent with the altruism model are important in Europe implies that the two … suggests that this model is far more applicable in Europe than is the altruism model. Moreover, our finding that the … intergenerational transfers motive, which is the saving motive that most exemplifies the altruism model, accounts for only about one …
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