undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior … household production and formal child care to the wage rate, the price of child care, taxes, benefits and child care subsidies …. To account for the non-convex nature of the budget sets and, possibly, the household technology, a discrete choice model …

additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In …

We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices … using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a … sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each spouse's characteristics, household characteristics, and background …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …