Umfang:
1 online resource (156 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521474191
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9780511152092
Serie:
Oscar Morgenstern Memorial Lectures
Inhalt:
Now revised, updated and in paperback this book studies both altruistic and nonaltruistic motives for transfer behavior. It also traces some of the market repercussions of intrafamilial, intergenerational, and intragroup transfers and exchanges
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction -- References -- 1 Altruism, transfers, and wellbeing -- Introduction -- Transfers and altruism -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 2 The timing of intergenerational transfers: an implication -- Introduction -- The model -- Production -- The nonfarm sector -- The farm sector -- Consumption and investment in human capital -- Stationary output -- Summary, implications, and predictions -- Appendix -- References -- 3 An exchange implication of transfers: the demonstration effect -- Introduction -- A basic model of transfers and imitation -- Evidence -- Intergenerational correlations -- The demonstration effect -- Additional results -- Additional issues -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 4 Transfers by migrants: a strategic motive for remittances -- Introduction -- Labor migration under asymmetric information: the basic model -- A two-groups case: an example -- Strategic remittances -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 5 Exchange with recognition costs: an explanation of migrants' performance -- Introduction -- Trade as a game with recognition costs -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 6 Intrafamilial transfers and exchanges: forming and sustaining altruism -- Introduction -- The evolution of genetically-transmitted behavior toward siblings -- Altruistic sororities without sex -- The occasional altruism of siblings in sexually-reproducing species -- The evolution of behavior that is acquired by imitation -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Stark, Oded Altruism and Beyond Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c1999 ISBN 9780521474191
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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