transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand …. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such … a subsidization emanates from the demonstration effect: a child's propensity to furnish parents with attention and care …

. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility … students' perceptions about the types of jobs that would be offered to them conditional on their college major choices, we … relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. We find that students perceive jobs offered to humanities majors to …