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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780089403321

Autore

Stark Oded

Titolo

Altruism and beyond : an economic analysis of transfers and exchanges within families and groups / / Oded Stark [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1995

ISBN

1-107-11257-5

0-511-15209-4

0-511-05308-8

0-511-49360-6

0-511-11616-0

1-280-15186-2

0-521-66373-3

0-511-32331-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 142 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Oscar Morgenstern memorial lectures

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Economics - Methodology

Families - Economic aspects

Exchange

Altruism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Altruism, transfers, and wellbeing -- The timing of intergenerational transfers: an implication -- An exchange implication of transfers: the demonstration effect -- Transfers by migrants: a strategic motive for remittances -- Exchange with recognition costs: an explanation of migrants' performance -- Intrafamilial transfers and exchanges: forming and sustaining altruism.

Sommario/riassunto

How do altruistic links affect allocative behavior and wellbeing? Can the processes of transmission and probable acquisition of parental traits result in a stable equilibrium where all agents are altruists? Why do children furnish their parents with attention and care? Does the timing of the intergenerational transfer of the family's productive asset affect the recipient's incentive to acquire human capital? Why do migrants



remit? Altruism and Beyond provides answers to these and related questions. In addition, it traces some of the market repercussions of the intrafamilial, intergenerational, and intragroup transfers and exchanges that it models.