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Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Joaquín Andaluz () (University of Zaragoza)
Miriam Marcén () (University of Zaragoza)
José Alberto Molina () (University of Zaragoza and IZA)
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This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer within a relationship of one-sided altruism. In the second stage, the level of welfare is deduced by way of a Nash bargaining solution. We show that intergenerational transfers may produce losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a compensatory way in an altruism model.
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Keywords: income transfers ; welfare ; marriage ; Nash-bargaining ; family decisions ; Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General
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