across family members, WTP(C). Households are assumed to allocate their resources in efficient Nash bargains over private and …

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …

decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises … respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …