A new article by Dr Maria Porter “For love or reward? Characterising preferences for giving to parents in an experimental setting” has been accepted in the Economic Journal. The article is the result of lab experiments Maria conducted while in Oxford and examines the motivations behind intergenerational transfers. The existence and responsiveness of familial transfers has consequences for the design of intra- and intergenerational redistributive programmes, particularly as such programmes may crowd out private transfers amongst altruistic family members. Yet, despite theoretical and empirical advances in this area, signifcant gaps in our knowledge remain. In this paper, the authors advance the current literature by shedding light on both the motivation for providing intergenerational transfers, and on the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, by using experimental techniques and revealed preference methods.
>Read artcile: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecoj.12248/abstract
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