Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot …;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior. The quot …

Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The … "demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

In this paper we study the process of children's skill formation. The identification of this process is challenging … because children's skills are observed only through arbitrarily scaled and imperfect measures. Using a dynamic la- tent factor … results to develop a sequential estimation algorithm for the joint dynamic process of latent investment and skill development …

A recent and growing area of research applies latent factor models to study the development of children's skills. Some … estimation. We show that these KLS production functions are already restricted in the sense that their location and scale is …