Sharing the Wealth
Demographic Change and Economic Transfers between Generations
Edited by Andrew Mason and Georges Tapinos
Table of Contents
1:Introduction, Andrew Mason and George Tapinos
Part I: Intergenerational Accounting
2:Intergenerational Transfers and the Economic Life Cycle: A Cross-cultural Perspective, Ronald D. Lee
3:Dynasties, Intergenerational Transfers, and Life-cycle Income: A Case Study of Taiwan, Andrew Mason and Tim Miller
4:Demographic Change, Generational Accounts, and National Saving in the United States, Jagadeesh Gokhale
Part II: Government-funded Pension Programmes
5:On the Rate of Return of Unfunded Pension Systems, Jorge Bravo
6:Moving Social Security towards Fully Funded Schemes: Who Pays the Cost?, Rafael P. Rofman
7:The Political Economy of Two Chilean Pension Systems, Salvador Valdés-Prieto
8:Pensions and Generational Histories in a Simple Demo-economic Model: The Case of France, Didier Blanchet and Jean-Alain Montford
9:Demographic Uncertainty and the OASDI Trust Funds of the United States, Shripad Tuljapurkar and Ronald D. Lee
Part III: The Family and Intergenerational Transfers
10:Financial Intermediation, Transfers, and Commitment: Do Banks Crowd Out Private Insurance Arrangements in Low-Income Rural Areas, Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
11:Self-enforcing Family Constitutions: Implications for Saving, Fertility, and Social Security, Alessandro Cigno
12:Wealth Accumulation, Fertility, and Transfers to Elderly Household Heads in Peru, Sumon Kumar Bhaumik and Jeffrey B. Nugent
13:Support between Rural Parents and Migrant Children in a Rapidly Industrializing Society: South Korea, Yean-Ju Lee
14:The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children, Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi, and Laurence Kotlikoff
15:Housing Inheritance: An Empirical Analysis of French Data, Anne Laferrère