In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care …. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … statistics show that about 30% of adult children living separately from their parents provide long-term in-home care, which …

measure ‘income’). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …

We estimate the effect of education on lifetime income in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …