I thought this would be interesting in relation to some of the (as yet unconnected)ideas about family relationships and weather patterns in the paper about irish drinking behaviour...
The Fetters of the Sib: Weber Meets Darwin
Date:2007-11-13
By: Ingela Alger (Department of Economics, Carleton University)
Jörgen W. Weibul
URL:http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:car:carecp:07-13&r=cbe
We analyze the effects of family ties - "the fetters of the sib" - on the incentives for productive effort. A family is here modelled as a pair of mutually altruistic siblings. Each sibling exerts effort, or makes an investment, to produce output under uncertainty, and siblings may transfer output to each other. We show that altruism has a non-monotonic effect on effort. Equilibrium effort decreases (increases) with altruism at low (high) levels of altruism. We study how this effect depends on climate,the magnitude and volatility of returns to effort. We also analyze the evolutionary robustness of family ties and how this robustness depends on climate. We find that family ties will be stronger in milder climates than in harsher climates, and that the evolutionarily robust degree of altruism is positive but less than one half. Decreased protection of property rights increases the evolutionarily robust degree of altruism.
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Equilibrium effort decreases (increases) with altruism at low (high) levels of altruism.
Agree, for me family ties are very sacred and I will make point that altruism is always at high though it is difficult in busy and workaholic life.
I find different ways for it, like the social networking site called Onefamily.
http://www.onefamily.com/Home/Index/rglx/myfamily_aboutita1
I have my family tree with my siblings, parents. Quite a pretty and genius thought. Though we are not staying together it is like a home where we chat and share a lot of things.
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