Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

NBER Working Paper No. 20214
Issued in June 2014, Revised in February 2017

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This article is based on the Walras-Bowley Lecture delivered by Zilibotti at the 2016 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society. We owe a special thanks to Giuseppe Sorrenti for his great help. We also thank the editor, three referees, Daniela Del Boca, Giovanni Gallipoli, Jeremy Greenwood, George Mailath, Espen Moen, Nicola Pavoni, Chiara Pronzato, María Sáez Martí, Michèle Tertilt, Giorgio Topa, and participants at various seminar and conference presentations for many helpful comments on earlier versions. Titan Alon and Laura Zwyssig provided excellent research assistance. Financial support from the National Science Foundation (grant SES-1260961, Doepke) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (100018 165616, Zilibotti) is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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