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Working Papers

2004

1. Motivation for Money and Care that Adult Children Provide for Parents: Evidence from "Point-Blank" Survey Questions
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
2. ON THE DEMAND FOR GRANDCHILDREN: TIED TRANSFERS AND THE DEMONSTRATION EFFECT
   Discussion Papers, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
   Also in
   Economics Series, Institute for Advanced Studies (2004)
   See Also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2005)

2003

3. Private Transfers within the Family: Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations

2002

4. Private Inter-household Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
   Also in
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2002)

2001

5. How Do People Decide to Allocate Transfers Among Family Members?
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations

2000

6. Intergenerational Linkages in Consumption Behavior
   Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society View citations
   Also in
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2000) View citations

1999

7. How Responsive are Private Transfers to Income? Evidence from a Laissez-Faire Economy
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
   See Also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2004)

1996

8. Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
   See Also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (1997)
9. Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
10. Motives for Private Transfers over the Life Cycle: An Analytical Framework and Evidence for Peru
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1998)
11. Private Safety Nets through Inter-Household Transfers: The Case of Viet Nam
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics

1993

12. A Study For Motivation For Private Transfers In Cote D'Ivoire
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
13. Intergenerational Transfers And Demonstration Effect
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
14. Motives For Private Transfers Over The Life Cycle: Analytical Framework And Evidence For Peru
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
15. Private Transfers And The Effectiveness Of Public Income Redistribution In The Philippines
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
16. The Effect Of Borrowing Constraints On Consumer Liabilities
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (1993)

1989

17. Private transfers and public policy in developing countries: a case study for Peru
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
18. THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations

Journal Articles

2007

1. Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21, (2), 91-108 View citations

2005

2. On the demand for grandchildren: tied transfers and the demonstration effect
   Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (9-10), 1665-1697 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (2004)

2004

3. How responsive are private transfers to income? Evidence from a laissez-faire economy
   Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88, (9-10), 2193-2219 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (1999)

1998

4. A note on the robust interpretation of regression coefficients
   TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 1998, 7, (2), 287-294
5. Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru
   Journal of Development Economics, 1998, 55, (1), 57-80 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (1996)
6. Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households?
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1998, 46, (3), 621-37 View citations
7. The stochastic control of process capability indices
   TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 1998, 7, (1), 1-74

1997

8. Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland
   Review of Income and Wealth, 1997, 43, (2), 191-209 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (1996)

1995

9. Erratum [Inter-vivos Transfers and Intergenerational Exchange]
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1995, 77, (3), 569
10. The connection between public transfers and private interfamily transfers
    Journal of Public Economics, 1995, 57, (1), 129-167 View citations
11. The relation between theory and application in statistics
    TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 1995, 4, (2), 207-261

1993

12. The Effect of Borrowing Constraints on Consumer Liabilities
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1993, 25, (2), 197-213 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1993)

1992

13. Inter-vivos Transfers and Intergenerational Exchange
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992, 74, (2), 305-14 View citations
14. Social Security and Private Transfers in Developing Countries: The Case of Peru
    World Bank Economic Review, 1992, 6, (1), 155-69 View citations

1990

15. Achieving Social Objectives through Private Transfers: A Review
    World Bank Research Observer, 1990, 5, (2), 205-18 View citations
16. Credit Rationing and Private Transfers: Evidence from Survey Data
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1990, 72, (3), 445-54 View citations
17. Intergenerational Transfers and Liquidity Constraints
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1990, 105, (1), 187-217 View citations
18. The relative effectiveness of private and public schools: Evidence from two developing countries
    Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 34, (1-2), 99-121 View citations

1989

19. Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France
    The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (04), 903-920 View citations

1987

20. Motives for Private Income Transfers
    Journal of Political Economy, 1987, 95, (3), 508-46 View citations

1986

21. Warm feelings and cold calculations: economic theories of private transfers
    Business Review, 1986, (Mar), 15-22

1984

22. Panel Estimates of the Effects of Career Interruptions on the Earnings of Women
    Economic Inquiry, 1984, 22, (3), 386-403 View citations

1982

23. Inequality in the Lifetime Earnings of Women
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982, 64, (3), 501-04 View citations

Chapters

2008

1. Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions
   Elsevier View citations

1985

2. Interfamily Transfers and Income Redistribution
   A chapter in Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being, 1985, pp 393-426 View citations