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 …

, household income, and household wealth - and the health outcomes investigated span multiple dimensions as well. International …-country differences in levels of income equality and mortality as among the most compelling evidence that unequal societies have negative … top. This social health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth is used as the marker of SES. While …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German work force have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …