Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18326 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 475
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of measurement can be fruitfully applied to the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and children in particular. We introduce an appropriate econometric methodology and, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000-2002, find that the parents? self-reported happiness depends positively, albeit not very strongly, on the happiness of adult children who moved out.
Subjects: 
utility function
extended family
fixed effects
ordered probit
JEL: 
C25
D64
D6
J10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
338.56 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.