American Economic Review Vol. 82 No. 5 1992
Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Direct Tests Using Micro Data
Abstract
This paper uses Panel Study of Income Dynamics data on parents and their adult children to test the standard altruism model. This model predicts that, within the extended family, the distribution of consumption is independent of the distribution of resources. Our findings strongly reject this prediction.
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1177-1198
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib