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

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 142 pages) : illustrations Series Oscar Morgenstern memorial lectures Oscar Morgenstern memorial lectures. Contents 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 Summary 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 Analysis Economics Ethics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 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 Altruism Economics -- Methodology Exchange Families -- Economic aspects Familie Wirtschaft Altruismus Wirtschaftstheorie Gezin. Leeftijdsgroepen. Vermogensoverdrachten. Altruïsme. Economische aspecten. Famille -- Aspect économique. Échange. Économie politique -- Méthodologie. Microéconomie. Successions et héritages -- Aspect économique. Altruisme. Relations entre générations -- Aspect économique. Comportement d'aide. Envois de fonds. Form Electronic book ISBN 051101094X 9780511010941 0511116160 9780511116162 9780511493607 0511493606 9786610151868 6610151865

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