of parental income, and that children appear to compare their actual income situation with the aspiration level acquired …High parental income, while undeniably causing benefits for a child in terms of better access to education and more … favorable labor market outcomes, may at the same time increase a child's income aspirations and thereby reduce financial …

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

to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across … of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model …

theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is … endogenized; as their choice of substituting child labor income by their own is endogenous. Interestingly, income shocks have … dearth of demand for parents' labor supply that support their CL or NCL decisions. It infers that any in-kind transfer or …

children work, still they get positive income from their parents. However, in some developing countries, child labor is … the cases where net transfers are in fact from children to parents. The paper shows that by adding a sibship size effect …Since the seminal work of Becker, the analysis of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents …

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …

I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … reduction in income was removed in the third policy period. These two reforms allow a causal identification of the effect of in …

influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find … that estimation outcomes are different between low and high-income countries. Whereas church membership is found to have a …

fraction of their income. The major difficulty in empirically assessing the relationship between incomes and saving rates is to … construct a credible proxy for long-run income - purged of transitory fluctuations and measurement error. The Canadian Family … reliable long-run income proxies. Our empirical analysis suggests that the estimated relationship between saving rates and long …

investigates whether children`s effort on schoolwork is diminished when parents experience a transitory shock to income. …This paper investigates the effects of short-run economic shocks on children`s progress through school in urban Brazil …. Of children ages 10-15 who are enrolled in school, only 69 percent advance on average to the next grade. This paper …