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Oded Stark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Comment on “Why do women interact with their parents more often than men? The Demonstration Effect vs. the biological Effect”
The Social Science Journal, 2015Co-Authors: Oded StarkAbstract:Abstract This Comment takes issue with the inference that Taiwanese data refute the applicability of the Demonstration Effect in intergenerational transfers. The Comment points to proper and discriminating tests of the Demonstration Effect.
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ON THE DEMAND FOR GRANDCHILDREN: TIED TRANSFERS AND THE Demonstration Effect
Journal of Public Economics, 2004Co-Authors: Donald Cox, Oded StarkAbstract:It is argued that parents provide help with housing downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the bDemonstration Effect:Q a child’s propensity to furnish parents with attention and care can be conditioned by parental example. Parents who desire such transfers in the future have an incentive to make transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work indicates behavior consistent with subsidization of the production of grandchildren and the Demonstration Effect.
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On the Demand for Grandchildren: Tied Transfers and the Demonstration Effect
Economics Series, 2004Co-Authors: Donald Cox, Oded StarkAbstract:Most private giving between living generations takes the form of "tied" transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the "Demonstration Effect:" a child's propensity to furnish parents with attention and care can be conditioned by parental example. Parents who desire such transfers in the future have an incentive to make transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households, indicates behavior consistent with subsidization of the production of grandchildren and the Demonstration Effect.
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Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect
1996Co-Authors: Donald Cox, Oded StarkAbstract:How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the child's conduct is conditioned by the parents' example. Parents can take advantage of this learning potential by making transfers to their own parents when children are present to observe such transfers. Parents who desire old-age support have an incentive to behave appropriately. The idea that the parents' behavior is aimed at inculcating desirable behavior in their children generates testable hypotheses about transfers that we investigate using household survey microdata. The Demonstration-Effect approach also has implications for such diverse phenomena as population aging and the labor market participation of women.
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Altruism and Beyond: An Economic Analysis of Transfers and Exchanges within Families and Groups - Altruism and Beyond: An Economic Analysis of Transfers and Exchanges within Families and Groups
1995Co-Authors: Oded StarkAbstract:1. Introduction 2. Altruism, transfers, and wellbeing 3. The timing of intergenerational transfers: an implication 4. An exchange implication of transfers: the Demonstration Effect 5. Transfers by migrants: a strategic motive for remittances 6. Exchange with recognition costs: an explanation of migrants' performance 7. Intrafamilial transfers and exchanges: forming and sustaining altruism.
François-charles Wolff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A causal test of the Demonstration Effect theory
Economics Letters, 2009Co-Authors: Andreea Mitrut, François-charles WolffAbstract:We propose a causal test of the Demonstration Effect theory using gender differences in the provision of upstream transfers. Using Romanian data, we find that young daughters affect their parents' contact with the grandparents differently than young sons do.
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Dynamique des transferts intergénérationnels et effet de démonstration [Dynamics of Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect]
2005Co-Authors: Mohamed Jellal, François-charles WolffAbstract:In this paper, we extend the framework of the motives for familial solidarities to three generations. By focusing on upward transfers, we examine the Demonstration Effect hypothesis where individuals make transfers to their parents in order to be helped in return by their children. We show the limits of this model when the probability of imitation is exogenous. Then, we endogeneize this probability by assuming that imitative behaviors are infl uenced by the stock of upstream transfers made previously by the parents. The theoretical predictions are tested using two cross-sectional surveys from France. Using different types of upstream transfers, we fi nd little evidence in favor of the Demonstration Effect hypothesis.
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Dynamique des transferts intergénérationnels et effet de démonstration
2005Co-Authors: Mohamed Jellal, François-charles WolffAbstract:In this paper, we extend the framework of the motives for familial solidarities to three generations. By focusing on upward transfers, we examine the Demonstration Effect hypothesis where individuals make transfers to their parents in order to be helped in return by their children. We show the limits of this model when the probability of imitation is exogenous. Then, we endogeneize this probability by assuming that imitative behaviors are infl uenced by the stock of upstream transfers made previously by the parents. The theoretical predictions are tested using two cross-sectional surveys from France. Using different types of upstream transfers, we fi nd little evidence in favor of the Demonstration Effect hypothesis.
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Solidarités familiales par la démonstration [Familial solidariies and the Demonstration Effect]
2003Co-Authors: Mohamed Jellal, François-charles WolffAbstract:Three theoretical hypotheses can explain the motives behind familial transfers given to the elders : altruism, exchange, and the Demonstration Effect theory where adults have to set an example by helping their elders if they want to be helped in turn by their children. This paper focuses on a theoretical model of Demonstration transfers where the anticipation of future difficulties increases the provision of upstream transfers. Predictions of the model are tested using a cross-sectional survey on private transfers within trigenerational families. Econometric results for timerelated upstream transfers are compatible with the Demonstration motive.
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Private intergenerational contact in France and the Demonstration Effect
Applied Economics, 2001Co-Authors: François-charles WolffAbstract:This study analyses motives for intergenerational contact from adult children to their middle-aged parents. If these transfers may be explained either by altruism or by exchange, we mainly focus on the Demonstration Effect where households take care of their own parents in order to elicit a future support from their children. We test the model using a cross-sectional survey from 1992 about private transfers in France. According to the data, the presence of children increases the amount of visits that respondents provide to their parents and the econometric results still hold after controlling for unobserved familial heterogeneity using fixed Effects. Although this empirical evidence is consistent with the Demonstration Effect, we suggest an alternative interpretation for the positive correlation based on the care of grandchildren.
David Fisher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Demonstration Effect Revisited
Annals of Tourism Research, 2004Co-Authors: David FisherAbstract:Abstract The Demonstration Effect is a concept that has been intuitively accepted by many observers as a natural consequence of tourism. But, it is a vague concept, the results of which are hard to isolate from other factors. This paper argues that it can be broken down into four forms: exact imitation, deliberately inexact imitation, accidental inexact imitation, and social learning. Each of these forms occur as a result of the decision-making process that takes place after the potential imitator has come into contact with the demonstrator. By understanding how decisions are made to imitate, it should be possible to distinguish tourism from other agents of change.
Donald Cox - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ON THE DEMAND FOR GRANDCHILDREN: TIED TRANSFERS AND THE Demonstration Effect
Journal of Public Economics, 2004Co-Authors: Donald Cox, Oded StarkAbstract:It is argued that parents provide help with housing downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the bDemonstration Effect:Q a child’s propensity to furnish parents with attention and care can be conditioned by parental example. Parents who desire such transfers in the future have an incentive to make transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work indicates behavior consistent with subsidization of the production of grandchildren and the Demonstration Effect.
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On the Demand for Grandchildren: Tied Transfers and the Demonstration Effect
Economics Series, 2004Co-Authors: Donald Cox, Oded StarkAbstract:Most private giving between living generations takes the form of "tied" transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the "Demonstration Effect:" a child's propensity to furnish parents with attention and care can be conditioned by parental example. Parents who desire such transfers in the future have an incentive to make transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households, indicates behavior consistent with subsidization of the production of grandchildren and the Demonstration Effect.
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Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect
1996Co-Authors: Donald Cox, Oded StarkAbstract:How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the child's conduct is conditioned by the parents' example. Parents can take advantage of this learning potential by making transfers to their own parents when children are present to observe such transfers. Parents who desire old-age support have an incentive to behave appropriately. The idea that the parents' behavior is aimed at inculcating desirable behavior in their children generates testable hypotheses about transfers that we investigate using household survey microdata. The Demonstration-Effect approach also has implications for such diverse phenomena as population aging and the labor market participation of women.
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Intergenerational Transfers And Demonstration Effect
1993Co-Authors: Donald Cox, Oded StarkAbstract:How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the child's conduct is conditioned by the parents' example. Parents can take advantage of this learning potential by making transfers to their own parents when children are present to observe such transfers. Parents who desire old-age support have an incentive to behave appropriately. The idea that the parents' behavior is aimed at inculcating desirable behavior in their children generates testable hypotheses about transfers that we investigate using household survey microdata. The Demonstration-Effect approach also has implications for such diverse phenomena as population aging and the labor market participation of women. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
Gu Ping - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Simulation System of π/2 Time-Frequency Differential Phase Shift Keying Signal On Matlab
Computer Simulation, 2003Co-Authors: Gu PingAbstract:This paper introduces a simulation system of π/2-TFDPSK based on the Simulink of Matlab. The simulation system displays the working mode and advantage of the π/2-TFDPSK system and it not only exhibits the good Demonstration Effect of Simulink but also offers a good simulation environment for π/2-TFDPSK.