This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants'
remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of …

This chapter is concerned with the distribution of personal wealth, which usually refers to the
material assets that can be sold in the marketpace, although on occasion pension rights are …

The book takes a broad view of the subject matter of acroeconomics. A substantial portion of
the book is devoted to economic growth, and separate chapters are devoted to the natural …

This paper develops a growth theory that captures the replacement of physical capital
accumulation by human capital accumulation as a prime engine of growth along the process …

Interpersonal preferences—preferences that depend on the characteristics of others—are
typically hard to infer from observable individual behavior. As an alternative approach, this …

Economists assume that people make choices based on their preferences and their budget
constraints. The preferences and values of others play no role in the standard economic …

We study the effect of social information on the voluntary provision of public goods.
Competing theories predict that others' contributions might be either substitutes or …

This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of landownership adversely affected
the emergence of human-capital promoting institutions (eg public schooling), and thus the …

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural
transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics …

This paper provides a critical survey of the large literature on the life cycle model of
consumption, both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view. It discusses several …