Determinantes das transferências privadas envolvendo idosos da cidade de São Paulo, entre os anos de 2000 e 2010

Abstract

Private transfers have emerged in studies of microeconomic Demography due to population aging, which generates the need to rebalance the flows of intergenerational transfers, which, in turn, depends on the network's responsiveness to redistributive public policies. This responsiveness is due to individuals altruistic and reciprocity behaviors while playing different roles in these networks. The areas of Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, help in understanding the phenomenon of transfers in complex societies and how the decision-making process of the transference takes place. This work enters this debate, rescuing the relatively neglected effects of reinforcement and substitution. To do so, it details transfers according to the type of resources (goods, time and money) and to the type of social relations network (household, non-household and institutional), trying to understand if the determinants matter differently for each of these types of transfers. It also investigates the relevance of the roles played by the individuals in their networks for these transfers. To do so, there were used data from the Saúde Bem-estar e Envelhecimento Research, coordinated by Professor Maria Lúcia Lebrão, University of São Paulo, involving elderly residents in permanent households in the city of São Paulo from 2000 to 2010. It is assumed that the life cycle matters in the transfer flows, and therefore the different roles played throughout this life cycle also matter. From there, fixed effects and random effects models are proposed in order to capture these differences. The results confirm the hypothesis of the study, except for the life cycle effect, which could not be captured due to the short time observed and the few waves of research done.