Motives for intergenerational transfers: evidence from Malaysia.
Part of a special issue on the demography of aging. The writers consider a number of hypotheses about reasons for intergenerational transfers within the family. They employ data on time and money transfers between generations in Malaysia, where there is neither Social Security nor Medicare, to exa...
| Published in: | Demography Vol. 34; pp. 115 - 135 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
February 1997
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