| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w9745
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 9745
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| Why Parents Play Favorites: Explanations for Unequal Bequests |
| Audrey Light; Kathleen McGarry
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| 发表日期 | 2003-06-02
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| 出版年 | 2003
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Economists have invested a great deal of effort in trying to understand the motivation for family transfers, yet recent empirical work testing the seemingly appealing models of altruism and exchange has led to decidedly mixed results. A major stumbling block has been the lack of adequate data. We take a fresh look at the issue using responses to an innovative survey question that directly asks mother about the planned division of their estates. We find that both altruism and exchange are frequently offered as explanations of behavior and are of nearly equal importance. Furthermore, the explanations are consistent with observable characteristics of the mother, lending support to the validity of the question. We also find that among step or adopted families, genetic ties play an important role. Because motivating factors appear to differ across families the lack of a consensus among previous researchers about motives ought not to be surprising. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Households and Firms
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9745
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567369
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Audrey Light,Kathleen McGarry. Why Parents Play Favorites: Explanations for Unequal Bequests. 2003.
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