remittances sent by the emigrating parents might enable not only their children, but also others, to stop working. We show how … this equilibrium can be sustained even upon the return of the emigrant parents to their home country. …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from … having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated brides, some parents can prevent costly household partition … parents for educating daughters fail to raise female schooling levels. Policies (such as housing subsidies) that promote …

parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic … altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

on the welfare of children, child labor is always exploitative. Neither welfare function captures the more gradual …

hinges on risk tolerance and patience. Parents expecting their children to become entrepreneurs have an incentive to instill … these two values in their children. Cultural transmission is Beckerian, i.e., parents are driven by the desire to maximize … their children's happiness. We also consider, in an extension, a paternalistic motive for preference transmission. The …