Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 96
Cover Image
Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … transfers. At the other extreme, descriptions of social transfers as systems of extended insurance (behind the veil of ignorance … explained by pure efficiency motives, but less than what would be predicted under the extended insurance hypothesis. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023654
Cover Image
Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
Cover Image
The magnitude and correlates of inter-vivos transfers in the UK
Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Attitudes to Inheritances Survey to estimate the magnitude of and the factors that are correlated with private inter-household transfers from parents to their adult children in the UK. Our evidence suggests that inter vivos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071119
Cover Image
The Magnitude and Correlates of Inter-vivos Transfers in the UK
Karagiannaki, Eleni - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Attitudes to Inheritances Survey to estimate the magnitude of and the factors that are correlated with private inter-household transfers from parents to their adult children in the UK. Our evidence suggests that inter vivos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195560
Cover Image
The Magnitude and Correlates of Inter-vivos Transfers in the UK
Karagiannaki, Eleni - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Attitudes to Inheritances Survey to estimate the magnitude of and the factors that are correlated with private inter-household transfers from parents to their adult children in the UK. Our evidence suggests that inter vivos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201235
Cover Image
Sensitivity of Charitable Giving to Realized Income Changes: Evidence from Military Bonuses and the Combined Federal Campaign
Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021
The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882531
Cover Image
Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign
Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021
The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800634
Cover Image
The relation between private transfers and household income on looking at altruism, exchange and risk-sharing hypotheses. An empirical analysis applied to Russia (In French)
CLEMENT, Matthieu - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of household income on private transfers in Russia on the basis of altruism, exchange and risk sharing hypotheses. Econometrical investigations, with Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data for 2002, show that private transfers can’t be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005379184
Cover Image
Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania
Mitrut, Andreea; Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
In many developing and transitional countries, inter-household transfers in general and gifts in particular are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian data that enables us, contrary to most previous studies, to isolate pure gifts from other kinds of private transfers and to study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651659
Cover Image
The relation between private transfers and household income on looking at altruism, exchange and risk-sharing hypotheses. An empirical analysis applied to Russia (In French)
CLEMENT, Matthieu - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2007
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of household income on private transfers in Russia on the basis of altruism, exchange and risk sharing hypotheses. Econometrical investigations, with Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data for 2002, show that private transfers can’t be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005697634