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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w5099 |
来源ID | Working Paper 5099 |
Transfer Behavior within the Family: Results from the Asset and Health Dynamics Survey | |
Kathleen McGarry; Robert F. Schoeni | |
发表日期 | 1995-04-01 |
出版年 | 1995 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | If an individual falls on hard times, can he rely on his family for financial support? In view of proposed reductions in public assistance programs, it is important to understand the mechanisms through which families provide support for their members. In this paper we provide evidence that intra-family transfers are compensatory, directed disproportionally to less well-off members. These results hold both for the incidence of transfers and for the amounts. Within a given year, adult children in the lowest income category are 6 percentage points more likely to receive a financial transfer from their parents, and on average they receive over $300 more than siblings in the highest income category. The data used in this study, the new Asset and Health Dynamics Survey (AHEAD), contain information on all children in the family. Thus we are able to estimate models which control for unobserved differences across families. Our results are robust to these specifications. Additionally, we do not find evidence that parents provide financial assistance to their children in exchange for caregiving. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w5099 |
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/562534 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kathleen McGarry,Robert F. Schoeni. Transfer Behavior within the Family: Results from the Asset and Health Dynamics Survey. 1995. |
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