Inter Vivos Health Transfers: Final Days of Japanese Elderly Parents

Descent Rules and Inter Vivos Transfers

Bequests, Inter Vivos Transfers, and Wealth Distribution

This paper extends the heterogeneous agent overlapping generations model with bequests in Nishiyama (2000) by adding two-way intergenerational altruism and inter vivos transfers. Calibrating the model to the U.S. economy, the paper measures time preference and intergenerational altruism consistent with the economy¶s capital-output ratio and the sizes of intergenerational transfers. In the model...

Givers and Receivers: Inter Vivos Transfers in the Case of Migrants to Australia

______________________________________________________________________________ This study analyses the characteristics of both recipients and givers of private transfers from a sample of Australian migrants. It utilises a unique longitudinal household survey conducted on immigrants entering Australia with permanent residency. Sample selection bias that arises from the limited observations that ...

Determinants of intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children in the city of Tehran

Intergenerational private transfers as a component of intergenerational relations, defined as exchang of financial and nonfinancial rsources between different generations in the family. Financial transfers are known as supply of lifeycle deficit in the old and young ages and an important factor to fullfill needs in these stages of lifecycle. The aim of the study is to recognize composition of f...

Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents: evidence from Vietnam

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents’ need to work. Taking the possible endogeneity of children’s transfers in the parents’ labour supply into account and using maximum lik...