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Private Inter-household Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s

Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2002

This chapter uses data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS) to describe patterns of money transfers between households. Rapid economic growth during the 1990's did little to diminish the importance of private transfers in Vietnam. Private transfers are large and...

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Private Safety Nets through Inter-Household Transfers: The Case of Viet Nam

Cox, Donald; Fetzer, James; Jiminez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

This paper uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey (VNLSS) to provide a snapshot of private transfer activity. We investigate private transfer patterns along a variety of dimensions, such as age, household resources, demographic make-up of the household and characteristics of the region of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102651

Motives for Private Transfers over the Life Cycle: An Analytical Framework and Evidence for Peru

Cox, Donald; Eser, Zekeriya; Jimenez, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1996

This paper tests for the motives for private income transfers. We consider two motives: altruism and exchange. The … recipient pre-transfer income, which contradicts a key prediction of the strong form of the altruism hypothesis but is …

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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...

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How Do People Decide to Allocate Transfers Among Family Members?

Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2001

Despite recent advances in data collection and the growing number of empirical studies that examine private intergenerational transfers, there still exist significant gaps in our knowledge. Who transfers what to whom, and why do they it? I argue that some of these gaps could be filled by...

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Private Transfers within the Family: Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters

Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2003

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Changing patterns of transfers in Slovenia in the last three decades : transition from a socialist economy to a market economy

Istenič, Tanja; Sambt, Jože - In: Post-communist economies 31 (2019) 5, pp. 579-602

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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1-122). 2006

Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … (which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …

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Do private and public transfers received affect life satisfaction? Evidence from Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (2011) 6, pp. 969-979

This paper uses Romanian survey data to investigate the determinants of individual life and financial satisfaction, with an emphasis on the role of public and private transfers received. A possible concern is that these transfers are unlikely to be exogenous to satisfaction. We use recursive...

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Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy : The Mahallas in Uzbekistan

Micklewright, John; Marnie, Sheila; Coudouel, Aline - 1999

Falling output and living standards have pushed countries in transition from the socialist system to re-consider how best to target public resources on those in need. The paper investigates the workings of a new social assistance benefit in Uzbekistan, the largest of the former Soviet Central...

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