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 …

We develop a new estimator for the process of children's skill formation in which children's skills endogenously …We use our identification results to develop a sequential estimation algorithm for the joint dynamic process of … United States, we estimate the technology of skill formation, the process of parental investments in children, and the adult …

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 …