Product Description: How do altruistic links affect allocative behavior and wellbeing? Can the processes of transmission and probable acquisition of parental traits result in a stable equilibrium where all agents are altruists? Why do children furnish their parents with attention and care? Does the timing of the intergenerational transfer of the family's productive asset affect the recipient's incentive to acquire human capital? Why do migrants remit? Altruism and Beyond provides answers to these and related questions...read more

Product Description: The collection of chapters in the Handbook of Population and Family Economics and their organization reflect the most recent developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. The rationale, contents, and organization of the Handbook evolve from three premises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book models afresh labour migration and various phenomena and processes associated with it. It builds on three premises. First, that though migrants are often individual agents, there is more to labour migration than an individualistic behaviour...read more