Governments, over much of the developed world, make significant financial transfers to parents with dependent children … variation in CB so we infer that parents are sufficiently altruistic towards their children that they completely insure them …. For example, in the US the recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all children, costs almost $1 …

-school children; and free milk at day-care for pre-school children in attendance regardless of parental income. We exploit a reform … elderly, the disabled, and children. However, this may crowd out private expenditures on the goods in question and, to some … this crowding out could be either altruism or agency. This paper is concerned with three nutrition programmes for children …