Grandparents as Guards: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Inheritance and Post Marital Residence in a World of Uncertain Paternity

• Main Author: GUHA, Brishti
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Uncertain paternity; grandparents; incentives; patrilocality; inheritance; monitoring; Behavioral Economics; Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1418; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2417/viewcontent/37_2012_grandparents.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

I unify the following (1) men face paternal uncertainty while women do not face maternal uncertainty, (2) putative fathers and paternal kin care about true paternity, (3) paternity confidence is systematically lower in matrilocal cultures than in patrilocal ones, (4) inheritance tends to be patrilin...