Interdependent transfers and individual needs: Parental support to children in the Netherlands

The 'watch dog' role of the media, the impact of migration processes, health care access for children in developing countries, mitigation of the effects of Global Warming are typical examples of governance issues – issues to be tackled at the base; issues to be solved by creating and implementing effective policy. students to pave the road for innovative policy developments in Europe and the world today. Our master's and PhD programmes train you in analysing, monitoring and evaluating public policy in order to strengthen democratic governance in domestic and international organisations. The School carefully crafts its training activities to give national and international organisations, scholars and professionals the tools needed to harness the strengths of changing organisations and solve today's challenges, and more importantly, the ones of tomorrow. Abstract Inter-vivos transfers from parents to children are the most common type of transfers in the family. Parents usually transfer part of their wealth, help with every day activities or give support and advice to their children. These transfers depend on parents' giving patterns, particular needs of children in a given time, but also on transfers given to the other children or the same child over time. But to what extent the likelihood of transferring money, services or support to one of the children will be influenced by transfers to other children (and/or to the same child in different years)? We use Netherlands Kinship Panel Study data for 2005 and 2007 to explore both the " between-children " and " between-time " interdependence of different transfers. The transfers we have considered include money transfers, household help, odd-jobs help, advice, and interest given to children. We examine the correlation of different transfers focusing at the effect that transfers to other children (or to the same child over the years) have on the likelihood of transferring particular transfers. We are able to distinguish both the " equity " effect and the " exhaustion " effect of parents. Parents tend to transfer similar transfers to both children, and also positively associate transfers among them. However, parents seem to " exhaust " their resources and do not always relate different transfers with each-other when it comes to different children.