Futagami, Ritsuko; Kamada, Kimiyoshi; Sato, Takashi - In: Public Choice 118 (2004) 1_2, pp. 77-86
This paper examines the effectiveness of government transfers in overcoming the Samaritan's dilemma in a family in which the child saves an insufficient amount in order to induce larger bequests from the parent. The results are as follows. First, exogenous government transfers do not affect...