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L'argent de poche versé aux jeunes : l'apprentissage de l'autonomie financière

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  • Christine Barnet-Verzat
  • François-Charles Wolff

    (LEN - Laboratoire d'économie de Nantes - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes, INED - Institut national d'études démographiques)

Abstract

Pocket money for children is the very first form of intergenerational transfer. The 1992 Education survey shows that three-quarters of France's pupils and students aged 6 to 25 each receive an average of over 3,000 French francs (460 Euros) from their parents over the school year, in the form of regular or sporadic payments. This assistance rises substantially with the child's age and especially level of education, in particular when going into the first form, the fifth form and higher education. Children's financial independence grows with age, hand in hand with more regular pocket money payments. This creates a complex interaction with the income earned by the child. This process of independence varies by social background and type of studies. Children receive more pocket money when their parents have high incomes and belong to upper social classes. From the youngest age, the parents provide this assistance as an incentive and a form of reciprocal arrangement in the intergenerational relationship: 18.2% of the families who gave ad-hoc financial assistance to their children did so to encourage them to work at school, while 18.5% did so to reward work done at home. Parents' motivations therefore appear to be based on more than just altruism.

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  • Christine Barnet-Verzat & François-Charles Wolff, 2001. "L'argent de poche versé aux jeunes : l'apprentissage de l'autonomie financière," Post-Print hal-03913040, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03913040
    DOI: 10.3406/estat.2001.7461
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    2. Barnet-Verzat, Christine & Wolff, Francois-Charles, 2002. "Motives for pocket money allowance and family incentives," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 23(3), pages 339-366, June.
    3. Marcio Dias & Valérie-Inés de la Ville, 2015. "Parental Mediation, a Key Element in the Construction of a Child’s Understanding in the Use of Pocket Money [La mediación parental, elemento clave de la construcción por el niño del sentido de la práctica del dinero de bolsillo]," Post-Print hal-01627594, HAL.

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