Altruism and beyond : an economic analysis of transfers and exchanges within families and groups /

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This book employs economic methodology to study the motives for and the repercussions of transfers and exchanges within families, between generations, and within groups. The book shows how the allocative behavior and wellbeing of one family member depend on his altruistic link with another family me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stark, Oded
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Colección:Oscar Morgenstern memorial lectures.
Temas:
Economics > Methodology.
Families > Economic aspects.
Exchange.
Altruism.
Families > Economic aspects > Mathematical models.
Parent and child > Economic aspects > Mathematical models.
Intergenerational relations > Economic aspects > Mathematical models.
Altruism > Economic aspects.
Resource allocation > Mathematical models.
Altruism
Familles > Aspect économique > Modèles mathématiques.
Parents et enfants > Aspect économique > Modèles mathématiques.
Relations entre générations > Aspect économique > Modèles mathématiques.
Altruisme > Aspect économique.
Échange, Théorie de l' (Économie politique)
Affectation des ressources > Modèles mathématiques.
Économie politique > Méthodologie.
Familles > Aspect économique.
Échange (Économie politique)
Altruisme.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Resource allocation > Mathematical models
Intergenerational relations > Economic aspects > Mathematical models
Families > Economic aspects > Mathematical models
Altruism > Economic aspects
Economics > Methodology
Exchange
Families > Economic aspects
Familie
Wirtschaft
Altruismus
Wirtschaftstheorie
Gezin.
Leeftijdsgroepen.
Vermogensoverdrachten.
Altruïsme.
Economische aspecten.
Famille > Aspect économique.
Échange.
Microéconomie.
Successions et héritages > Aspect économique.
Relations entre générations > Aspect économique.
Comportement d'aide.
Envois de fonds.
Economics > Ethics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book employs economic methodology to study the motives for and the repercussions of transfers and exchanges within families, between generations, and within groups. The book shows how the allocative behavior and wellbeing of one family member depend on his altruistic link with another family member, how the timing of the intergenerational transfer of the family productive asset affects the recipient's incentive to engage in human capital formation, and how transfers from an adult to his parents impinge on future transfers to him from his own children. In addition, the book shows that under asymmetric information high-skill migrant workers make transfers to low-skill would-be migrants in order to lure them to stay put, and that under incomplete information a group-specific informational edge - lower recognition costs - results in a superior exchange outcome.
Finally, altruism, which in the beginning of the book is assumed, is explained: the transmission to or probable acquisition by children of parental traits and the exchange between siblings are shown to result in a stable equilibrium wherein no agent behaves nonaltruistically. The book studies both altruistic and nonaltruistic motives for transfer behavior. In addition, it traces some of the market repercussions of intrafamilial, intergenerational, and intragroup transfers and exchanges.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 142 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:051101094X
9780511010941
0511116160
9780511116162
9780511493607
0511493606
9786610151868
6610151865

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