Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192421 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 439
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Several studies reject the implications of the altruism model. In this study it is argued that parents who transfer resources to their children both are altruistic and influenced by an equal division fairness norm. Under such motives, the degree of income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the fairness norm when income differences between siblings are large. The results suggest that equal divisions are intentional and weighted against altruistic motives.
Subjects: 
inter vivos gifts
altruism
equal sharing
compensatory transfer
JEL: 
D19
D64
H21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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