Social security

M Feldstein, JB Liebman - Handbook of public economics, 2002 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical issues dealing with Social Security
pensions. The first part of the chapter discusses pure pay-as-you-go plans. It considers the …

A Survey of Theories of the Family

TC Bergstrom - Handbook of population and family economics, 1997 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the theories of the family, and
discusses the household technology and utility possibility frontiers, decision-making in the …

Nobel lecture: The economic way of looking at behavior

GS Becker - Journal of political economy, 1993 - journals.uchicago.edu
An important step in extending the traditional theory of individual rational choice to analyze
social issues beyond those usually considered by economists is to incorporate into the …

Toward a theory of agency and altruism in family firms

WS Schulze, MH Lubatkin, RN Dino - Journal of business venturing, 2003 - Elsevier
Surprisingly, the majority of US family firms offer employed family members short-and long-
term performance-based incentive pay. We draw on the household economics and altruism …

Foreign aid and rent-seeking

J Svensson - 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2, 2000 - Springer
Why has the macroeconomic impact of foreign aid seemingly been so poor? Is there a
relationship between the widespread level of corruption and other types of rent-seeking …

Parental altruism and inter vivos transfers: Theory and evidence

JG Altonji, F Hayashi… - Journal of political …, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper uses PSID data on the extended family to test whether inter vivos transfers from
parents to children are motivated by altruism. Specifically, the paper tests whether an …

Is the extended family altruistically linked? Direct tests using micro data

J Altonji, F Hayashi, LJ Kotlikoff - 1989 - nber.org
What is the basic economic decision-making unit? Is it the household or the extended
family? This question is fundamental to economic analysis and policy design. The answer …

[BOOK][B] The theory of taxation and public economics

L Kaplow - 2011 - books.google.com
The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for
analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original …

Altruism, agency, and the competitiveness of family firms

WS Schulze, MH Lubatkin… - Managerial and decision …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The core belief among agency theorists is that when a firm is both owned and managed by
family members, its governance structure is efficient. We argue that this belief over‐simplifies …

When is foreign aid policy credible? Aid dependence and conditionality

J Svensson - Journal of development economics, 2000 - Elsevier
Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this,
recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. In principle, conditionality …