the degrees of filial and parental altruism and adjust them with their respective life expectancy and fertility rates. The … parentally altruistic than the former. Especially, people in developing Asia have notably lower adjusted degrees of filial … altruism than those in the other countries. Our welfare analyses reveal that the developing Asian countries must introduce more …

This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a …

prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …

The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …

theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium and growth. The work is highly abstract but much …Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary … overlapping generation models, social security systems, and population growth. …

altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an … and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate …, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the relative risk aversion, the production function, and the degree of …

-cycle model as well as saving motives that are consistent with the altruism model are important in Europe implies that the two … suggests that this model is far more applicable in Europe than is the altruism model. Moreover, our finding that the … intergenerational transfers motive, which is the saving motive that most exemplifies the altruism model, accounts for only about one …