We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a …

earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks … at 16 years of experience when their wages are 52% (24%) greater than those whose parents both have only 5 (10) years of …

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 …

Money parents give their adult children may be important for the financing of a child's education or a first home … poor households do not. In this paper, we first examine annual gifts of money from parents to adult children in the United … monetary giving to children across families and within a family. We found that in all countries, some parents gave money to …

We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an … evidence of intergenerational links between the social interaction of parents and their offspring supporting the existence of …

characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …Eltern investieren in ihre Kinder auf unterschiedliche Weise. Wir untersuchen wie das Ausmaß und die Zusammensetzung …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 …