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Many intergenerational economic issues, such as educational expenditures for children, bequests, old age pensions, care of the aged, ecological conservation, etc., can be fruitfully analyzed using the framework of intergenerational altruism. This paper is concerned with a special type of intergenerational altruism, namely non-paternalistic intergenerational altruism, which is an agent’s regard for ancestors and/or descendants such that the agent is better off if the ancestors and/or descendants are better off according to their own tastes.
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Hori, H. (2001). Non-Stationary Intergenerational Altruism. In: Negishi, T., Ramachandran, R.V., Mino, K. (eds) Economic Theory, Dynamics and Markets. Research Monographs in Japan-U.S. Business & Economics, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1677-4_9
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