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Bequest division : the roles of parental motives and children's gender composition

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025

Drawing on two data sources from across Europe, we show that both bequest motives of parents and children’s gender composition shape unequal divisions of bequests. First, the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe reveals that observed bequests are divided unequally when children...

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Altruism, fertility, and the value of children : health policy evaluation and intergenerational welfare

Birchenall, Javier A. (contributor); … - 2007

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

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For the future of our grandchildren : grandparenthood and climate change concerns

Voorintholt, Lieke; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Soetevent, … - 2025

Concerns about offspring's life quality are often cited as a motivation for caring about climate change. This paper investigates the hypothesized causal effect of grandparenthood on climate change worries, using panel data surveys among British families. Specifically, we study whether becoming a...

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Parenting with style : altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012

We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative … altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences … innovation. -- intergenerational preference transmission ; altruism ; paternalism ; entrepreneurship ; innovation …

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Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign

Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021

The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...

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Is there such a thing as a family constitution? : A test based on credit rationing

Cigno, Alessandro; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Rosati, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The long-term consequences of a golden nest

Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Weber, Guglielmo - 2020

We study the role played by the standard of living during childhood on nest leaving. Using data from SHARE, we show empirically that individuals who grew up in a golden nest leave the parental home later and that education only partially mediates this effect. This relationship holds across...

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Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

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