Subgame perfect manipulation of children by overlapping generations of agents with two-sided altruism and endogenous fertility

Lakshmi Raut ()

Labor and Demography from EconWPA

Abstract: In this paper we consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and two-sided altruism and show the limitations of applying commonly used open loop Nash equilibrium in characterizing equilibrium transfers from parents to children in the form of bequest, and transfers from children to parents as voluntary old-age support. Since in our model children are concerned with parents' old-age consumption, agents have incentives to save less for old age and to have more children so as to strategically induce their children to transfer more old-age support. We formulate such strategic behavior within a sequential multi-stage game and use the notion of subgame perfect equilibrium to study the consequences of such strategic manipulations on private intergenerational transfers, fertility and savings decisions, and on Pareto optimality of equilibrium allocation. We then examine the role of social security to correct such strategic distortions.

Keywords: two-sided altruism; endogenous fertility; subgame perfect manipulation of children; social security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D64 E21 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-04-05
Note: Type of Document - Tex; prepared on IBM PC-TEX; to print on PostScript; pages: 16 ; figures: included. This is for electronic circulation to reduce our mailing and xerox cost.
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/lab/papers/9604/9604003.pdf (application/pdf)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/lab/papers/9604/9604003.ps.gz (application/postscript)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wpa:wuwpla:9604003

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Labor and Demography from EconWPA
Series data maintained by EconWPA ().