. By definition, informal care is unpaid. It remains a puzzle why so many adult children give freely of their time … 2003 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We examine whether the elderly parents give more inter …-vivos monetary transfers to adult children who provide informal care, by examining both the extensive and intensive margins of …

We examine differences in the prescribing of psychiatric medications to low-income and higher-income children in the … that conditional on diagnosis and medical history, low-income children are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics and … benzodiazepines than higher-income children who see the same doctors. These are drugs with potentially dangerous side effects that …

. This framework demonstrates that non-monetary costs of applying for income-based repayment assistance are critical to … may be inefficient and lead to undesirable redistribution. Empirically, we demonstrate that expanding Canada's income …

This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post …-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and …

throughout their lives, parents' initial skills and skill growth rates are equally important determinants of children's skills … lower for children born to younger fathers … transmission of these factors explains up to 40% of children's skill variation. Skills become a more important determinant of …

have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent evidence on the extent to which students are able to obtain … student credit arrangements that balance three important objectives: (i) providing credit for students to access college and … outcomes in the form of income-contingent repayments, and (iii) providing incentives for student borrowers to honor their loan …