Are family transfers crowded out by public transfers?

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 587-604

  Güth, Werner ^a   Offerman, Theo ^b   Potters, Jan ^c   Strobel, Martin ^d   Verbon, Harrie A A ^c  

^a Max Planck Working Group   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crowding out; Experiments; Overlapping generations; Reciprocity; Redistributive public pension system; Within family transfers

Indexed keywords

INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; PENSION SYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 0036993005     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00303     Document Type: Article

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