the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …

-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We … their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found … in both pooled and panel analysis. …

as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …

, indicators of parents' patience, i.e., propensity to plan ahead and willingness to postpone benefits to the future, are …

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal … care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the …

decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or …

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …