INTER-VIVOS TRANSFERS AND INTERGENERATIONAL EXCHANGE
INTER-VIVOS TRANSFERS AND INTERGENERATIONAL EXCHANGE
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DOI：
10.2307/2109662
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发表时间：
1992-05-01
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
RANK, MR
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作者：
COX, D;RANK, MR
在过去十年中，对代际转移的兴趣激增，引发了关于代际转移动机的辩论。转移是出于利他主义还是交换的一部分？虽然每一种动机都可能在某种程度上起作用，但我们对其中一种动机是否占主导地位知之甚少。这个问题与公共收入再分配和家庭不平等问题有关，但尽管它很重要，但由于数据有限，关于动机的经验证据很少。我们调查了一个新的数据集，全国家庭和住户调查，它弥补了许多其他数据集包含私人转移信息的缺点。我们发现，活体间转移的经验模式（即，活人之间的转移）更符合交换而不是利他主义。
The surge of interest in intergenerational transfers in the past decade has sparked a debate over the motivation for them. Are transfers given out of altruism or part of an exchange? While each motive is probably at work to some extent, we know little about whether one motive predominates. The question is relevant for issues concerning public income redistribution and inequality in the family but despite its importance, empirical evidence about motives is scarce because of limited data. We investigate a new data set, the National Survey of Families and Households, which remedies many of the shortcomings of other data sets containing private transfer information. We find that empirical patterns for inter-vivos transfers (i.e., transfers between living persons) are more consistent with exchange than altruism.