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Cultural Transmission of Altruism Explained by Irene Torres is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document examines cultural evolutionary altruism theory and the cultural transmission of altruistic values between generations as an explanation for inter vivos transfers within families. It presents a model where individuals can be either altruistic or non-altruistic towards their parents, and the probability a child is altruistic increases if their parents provided care to their own elders. The paper aims to test predictions of this cultural transmission hypothesis using French data on transfers from
- Author
- Irene Torres
- Language
- EN