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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 …

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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children : Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021

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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The Price of Warm Glow

Lilley, Andrew - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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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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Demographic Uncertainty and Generational Consumption Risk with Endogenous Human Capital

Emerson, Patrick M. - 2018

This paper uses a model with overlapping generations to demonstrate that human capital accumulation can potentially attenuate factor price movements in response to birth rate shocks. Specifically, we show that if education spending per child is inversely related to the size of the generation,...

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Population Aging, Elderly Migration and Education Spending : Intergenerational Conflict Revisited

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

Elderly have been increasingly targeted as a group to enhance economic development and the tax base in communities. While recent literature on elderly migration tends to focus on how elderly migration patterns are influenced by state fiscal variables, the reverse effect from elderly population...

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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Bauer, Philipp - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents

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Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe

Lewandowski, Piotr - 2017

This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & Autor (2011), and combine O*NET occupation content data with EU-LFS individual data to construct...

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Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers

Francesconi, Marco - 2021

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this study examines the relationship between several outcomes in early adulthood (e.g., education, inactivity, earnings, and health) and being born to a teenage mother. Besides standard cross-sectional multivariate regression estimates, we also...

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Parenting with Style : Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke, Matthias - 2013

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 …

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