| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w4607 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 4607 |
| Transfer Behavior: Measurement and the Redistribution of Resources within the Family | |
| Kathleen McGarry; Robert F. Schoeni | |
| 发表日期 | 1994 |
| 出版年 | 1994 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Recent work by a number of economists has opened a debate about the role played by intergenerational transfers. Using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), we are better able to address the issues involved. Contrary to the current literature on bequests, we do not find that parents give transfers equally to all children. Rather we find that in the case of inter vivos transfers, respondents give greater financial assistance to their less well off children, relative to their children with higher incomes. Financial transfers to elderly parents are also found to be negatively related to the (potential) recipient's income. These results hold both for the incidence of transfers and for the amounts. Additionally, we allow for unobserved differences across families by estimating fixed effect models and find our results to be robust to these specifications. Thus we fail to reject altruism as a possible motivation for transfers. A comparison of the HRS transfer data to other survey data demonstrates that the HRS is potentially quite useful for research on transfer behavior. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w4607 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/561995 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kathleen McGarry,Robert F. Schoeni. Transfer Behavior: Measurement and the Redistribution of Resources within the Family. 1994. |
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