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We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger … incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as …
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We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...
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We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while...
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his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant. …
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We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism. Caring about how we fare in comparison with others who fare...
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biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea … having children is to obtain support in old age, we perceive menopause as an upper limit to the fertile state, when a … continued ability to give birth to children would not generate the desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable …
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biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea … having children is to obtain support in old age, we perceive menopause as an upper limit to the fertile state, when a … continued ability to give birth to children would not generate the desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable …
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Let a society's unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
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We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider "a family … experience of inheriting enhances the intension to bequeath as redicted by the family tradition model, independently of the … inheritance provides which account for its impact on the intention to bequeath; it is rather the family tradition of bequeathing …
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I study attitudes towards risk taking in cases where a person relates to others positively, namely altruistically. This study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will this person's risk-taking behavior differ if the...
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