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Family ties, incent...
Family ties, incentives and development : a model of coerced altruism
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- Weibull, Jörgen (författare)
- Stockholm School of Economics,Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
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- Alger, Ingela (författare)
- Toulouse School of Economics (FR)
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
- 2009
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Arguments for a better world : essays in honor of Amartya Sen. - New York : Oxford University Press. - 9780191716874 - 9780199239979 ; , s. 178-201
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- This chapter analyses the effects of family ties on the incentives for production of effort, where family ties are defined as a mixture of true and coerced altruism between family members. It models families as pairs of siblings. Each sibling exerts effort in order to obtain output under uncertainty. A social norm dictates that a sibling with a high output must share a specified amount of this output with his sibling, if the latter's output is low. Siblings may be truly altruistic towards each other, but not to a larger degree than dictated by the social norm. The chapter compares such informal family insurance with actuarially fair formal insurance. It shows that coerced family altruism reduces individual efforts in equilibrium. However, individuals always benefit ex ante from living in families with coerced altruism, as compared with living in autarky. The chapter shows that a certain degree of coerced family altruism is robust as a social norm in a society of selfish individuals. It explains that if family members are sufficiently altruistic to each other, then informal family insurance by way of coerced altruism may outperform actuarially fair insurance programs.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
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