Shaping intergenerational relationships: the demonstration effect

Mohamed Jellal and François-Charles Wolff
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Mohamed Jellal: UM5 - Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal]

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Abstract: According to the demonstration effect theory, parents make intergenerational transfers to their elders in order to elicit a symmetric future behavior from their children. In this paper we show that upstream transfers are expected to increase with low returns from alternative financial assets and with the donor's life expectancy. The latter effect creates a greater incentive for daughters to care for parents.

Keywords: Intergenerational transfer Demonstration effect Imitation JEL classification: D10 J10; Intergenerational transfer; Demonstration effect; Imitation JEL classification: D10; J10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-09
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Published in Economics Letters, 2000, 68 (3), pp.255-261. ⟨10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00247-0⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00247-0

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