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Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility

Eibich, Peter - 2020

Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children's fertility. We use representative panel data...

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Endogenous Demographic Change, Retirement and Social Security

Cipriani, Giam - 2019

In this paper, we analyse the effects of demographic change on a PAYG pension system, financed with a defined contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of...

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Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

Nikolov, Plamen - 2020

Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection …

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Intertemporal Altruism

Chopra, Felix; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Falk, Armin; … - 2021

Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others – it is consequence-dated – or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...

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Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions

Andaluz, Joaquin - 2007

stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer within a relationship of one-sided altruism. In the second stage, the … compensatory way in an altruism model …

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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, … - 2021

The paper aims to ascertain whether voluntary money transfers may be explained by the existence of self-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent will behave differently if she is optimizing subject to a family constitution, than if she is moved by either...

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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Cremer, Helmuth - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal … care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the …

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Migration and the Demographic Shift

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2015

This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications...

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Economic Preferences Across Generations and Family Clusters : A Large-Scale Experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K. - 2020

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...

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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being : Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?

Prettner, Klaus - 2012

It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its … consumer optimization model that incorporates endogenous fertility as well as endogenous education and health investments. The … model shows that a fertility decline induces higher education and health investments that are able to compensate for …

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