On the demand for grandchildrenTied transfers and the demonstration effect
On the demand for grandchildren
Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
dc.contributor.author | Cox, Donald | |
dc.contributor.author | Stark, Oded | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-25T13:39:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-25T13:39:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 09.2004 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12324 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is argued that parents provide help with housing downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the “demonstration effect:” a child’s propensity to furnish parents with attention and care can be conditioned by parental example. Parents who desire such transfers in the future have an incentive to make transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work indicates behavior consistent with subsidization of the production of grandchildren and the demonstration effect. | de |
dc.format.extent | 59 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 89 | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject.ddc | 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie | |
dc.subject.ddc | 320 Politik | |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 Wirtschaft | |
dc.title | On the demand for grandchildren | |
dc.title.alternative | Tied transfers and the demonstration effect | |
dc.type | Arbeitspapier | |
dc.publisher.name | Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn | |
dc.publisher.location | Bonn | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | |
dc.relation.eissn | 1436-9931 | |
dc.relation.url | https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/zef_dp89.pdf | |
ulbbn.pubtype | Zweitveröffentlichung | |
dc.version | publishedVersion |