For Love or Reward? Characterising Preferences for Giving to Parents in an Experimental Setting
用实验和显示偏好方法，研究人们向父母提供代际转移的动机是出于利他还是期待回报，对理解家庭内部转移是否会被公共政策挤出有参考价值。
Understanding the motivations behind intergenerational transfers is an important and active research area in economics. The existence and responsiveness of familial transfers have consequences for the design of intra and intergenerational redistributive programmes, particularly as such programmes may crowd out private transfers amongst altruistic family members. Yet, despite theoretical and empirical advances in this area, significant gaps in our knowledge remain. In this article, we advance the current literature by shedding light on both the motivation for providing intergenerational transfers, and on the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, by using experimental techniques and revealed preference methods.