Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007
mixture of true and coerced altruism between family members. We model families as pairs of siblings. Each sibling exerts …, individuals always benefit ex ante from living in families with coerced altruism, as compared with living in autarky. We show that … show that if family members are sufficiently altruistic to each other, then informal family insurance by way of coerced …