, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and children in particular. We introduce an …

power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …

life than non-volunteers. Causality is addressed taking advantage of a natural experiment: the collapse of East Germany and …

interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that …

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution … renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

behavior. I consider two general motivations for remitting: altruism and self-interest. Using a heteroskedastic Tobit with a …

-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 altruistic or exchange motivations. The circumstance is the presence of a … family constitution exists, but will have the opposite effect if the transfer is either a gift, or payments for services …

reinforcing role of altruism and mission alignment in sorting to the public sector, particularly among highly educated workers and …