Are Americans more altruistic than the Japanese?
Subtitle: a U.S.-Japan comparison of saving and bequest motives
By: Charles Yuji Horioka ... [et al.].
Contributors: Horioka, Charles.; Fujisaki, Hideki.; Watanabe, Wako.; Kouno, Takatsugo.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 7463; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 7463.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Households -- Japan -- Econometric models.; Households -- United States -- Econometric models.; Saving and investment -- Japan.; Saving and investment -- United States.; Inheritance and succession -- Economic aspects -- Japan.; Inheritance and succession -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Intergenerational relations -- Economic aspects -- Japan.; Intergenerational relations -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Other titles: U.S.-Japan comparison of saving and bequest motives
Notes: "January 2000."

JEL no. D12, D91, E21.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27)

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