Caring for dependent parents: Altruism, exchange or family norm?

Autor:	Pierre Pestieau, Jérome Schoenmaeckers, Sergio Perelman, Justina Klimaviciute
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Theoretical models Altruism Long-term care Complete information 0502 economics and business Economics Norm (social) 050207 economics Social psychology 050205 econometrics Demography Social policy media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Population Economics. 30:835-873
ISSN:	1432-1475 0933-1433
DOI:	10.1007/s00148-017-0635-2
Popis:	The purpose of this paper is to test alternative models of long-term caring motives. We consider three main motives: pure altruism, exchange and family norm. Our database is the second wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) which allows linking almost perfectly and with complete information children and their parents’ characteristics. Comparing the empirical results to the theoretical models developed, it appears that, depending on the regions analyzed, long-term caring is driven by moderate altruism or by family norm, while Alessie et al. (De Economist 162(2):193–213, 2014), also using SHARE data, stress the importance of exchange motive in intergenerational transfers.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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