Counter-compensatory inter-vivos transfers and parental altruism: Compatibility or orthogonality?

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-25

  Stark, Oded ^a,b   Zhang, Junsen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Inter vivos transfers; Parental altruism

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344243549     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(01)00166-4     Document Type: Article

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