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Parent-Child-Transfers in Germany: A Study of Magnitude and Motivations
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 119 (1999), Iss. 3 : pp. 429–453
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Jürges, Hendrik
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This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to analyse parent-child transfers in Germany. Projections show that these transfers amounted to approximately 17 billion DM in 1995. The econometric analysis of transfer determinants is based on two different samples generated from the GSOEP: one parent sample with data on donors' households only and one matched sample of parents' and children's' households. Results from the parent sample indicate that transfers to children might be altruistically motivated, for example to aid children who form their own household. The matched sample, however, provides strong evidence against purely altruistic transfers and in favour of exchange motives.