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Aides aux parents âgés et allocation intra-familiale

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  • François-Charles Wolff
  • Mohamed Jellal

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[eng] In this paper, we examine how children care for their elderly parents and the motives of these family transfers, accounting for interactions between parents and their different children. We study a theoretical model of intergenerational transfers based on altruism, where siblings care for their parents (a public good). Decisions of upstream assistance are analysed using data from a trigenerational survey. Econometric results, which control for unobserved heterogeneity within familles using fixed effects, show that time-related transfers to elders mainly depend on the parental needs and the children's availability. Transfer behaviors from children are rather independent from each other: there does not exist any positive or negative competition within siblings when caring for elderly. [fre] Cet article étudie la façon dont s'organise la prise en charge des parents âgés par leurs enfants et les motivations de ces transferts familiaux des enfants, en prenant en compte les interactions stratégiques entre les parents et leurs différents enfants. Nous étudions un modèle théorique de transferts intergénérationnels fondé sur l'altruisme où les frères et sœurs s'occupent de leurs parents (un bien public) sans recevoir de contrepartie. Les comportements d'aides ascendants sont étudiés à partir des données de l'enquête Cnav Trois Générations 1992. Les résultats économétriques, qui contrôlent l'hétérogénéité individuelle non observable pour les familles par des effets fixes, montrent que les aides non financières aux parents âgés sont surtout fonction de leurs besoins et de la disponibilité des enfants. Les comportements des enfants sont plutôt indépendants les uns des autres : il n'existe pas de compétition positive ou négative au sein des fratries lorsqu'il s'agit de s'occuper de ses vieux parents.

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  • François-Charles Wolff & Mohamed Jellal, 2002. "Aides aux parents âgés et allocation intra-familiale," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 53(4), pages 863-885.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:reveco:reco_0035-2764_2002_num_53_4_410450
    DOI: 10.3406/reco.2002.410450
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    1. Wolff, Francois-Charles & Laferrere, Anne, 2006. "Microeconomic models of family transfers," Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, in: S. Kolm & Jean Mercier Ythier (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 13, pages 889-969, Elsevier.
    2. Quitterie Roquebert & Roméo Fontaine & Agnès Gramain, 2016. "L'aide à un parent âgé, seul et dépendant : déterminants structurels et interactions," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 16030, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
    3. repec:dau:papers:123456789/1801 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Stéphane Mechoulan & François-Charles Wolff, 2015. "Intra-household allocation of family resources and birth order: evidence from France using siblings data," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 28(4), pages 937-964, October.
    5. repec:dau:papers:123456789/13781 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. Mohamed Jellal & François-Charles Wolff, 2005. "Dynamique des transferts intergénérationnels et effet de démonstration," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 77, pages 81-107.
    7. repec:dau:papers:123456789/1879 is not listed on IDEAS
    8. Roméo Fontaine & Agnès Gramain & Jérôme Wittwer, 2007. "Les configurations d'aide familiales mobilisées autour des personnes âgées dépendantes en Europe," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 403(1), pages 97-115.

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