| Titre | Les transferts versés aux enfants et aux parents : altruisme ou échange intertemporel? | |
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| Auteur | François-Charles Wolff | |
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Revue | Economie et prévision |
| Numéro | no 142, 2000/1 | |
| Page | 67-91 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Transfers Paid to Children and Parents : Altruism or Intertemporal Exchange ?
by François-Charles Wolff
This article studies family transfers paid by an intermediate generation (pivot) to its adult children and parents. This solicitation from both sides may be explained by an intertemporal exchange, whereby selfish pivots lend money to the young to be paid back later. Conversely, it may be explained by the pivots' altruism towards their children and parents. An econometric analysis based on the 1992 CNAV Three Generations survey reveals that financial assistance to children is mainly an investment in human capital and that assistance to ascendants is mainly determined by the needs of the assisted parents. Although this assistance hardly reflects a contractual reimbursement by the pivots, the altruistic model is also rejected by the data. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ecop_0249-4744_2000_num_142_1_5988 |
