Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128343 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5642
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We assume like Bergstrom (1989) and Dijkstra (2007) that each child’s utility is treated as a normal good in the altruistic head’s utility function, and show that if utility functions lead to Almost Transferable Utility children can manipulate the tradeoff between their own utility and the parent’s utility through their own actions, but they have an incentive to maximize the altruistic head’s utility if the altruistic head also considers children’s utilities as Hicksian substitutes and hence the rotten kid theorem holds. A special class of such altruistic utility functions that treat utilities of children as normal and Hicksian substitutes are the Generalized Utilitarian Welfare functions.
Subjects: 
Rotten Kid Theorem
transferable utility
Hicksian substitutes
fiscal federalism
JEL: 
H70
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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