Rochester Tough Love and Intergenerational Altruism
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This paper develops and studies a tough love model of intergenerational altruism. We model tough love by modifying the Barro-Becker standard altruism model in two ways. First, the child’s discount factor is endogenously determined, so that low consumption at young age leads to a higher discount factor later in her life. Second, the parent evaluates the child’s lifetime utility with a constant high discount factor. The tough love model predicts that transfers from the parent will fall when the child’s discount factor falls. This is in contrast with the predictions of the standard altruism model that transfers from parents are independent of exogenous changes in the child’s discount factor.
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