expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent's expenditure patterns. …

. Sharing between parents and children is well predicted on average while the model detects key aspects like the extent of pro ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

that allow us to rationalise both the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money. …

between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike …

+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a … financial difficulties of families with children. From a policy perspective, the findings indicate that cash transfers can … alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …

for children's marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … market in China - affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …

We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are … couples without children. The implications of the unitary framework are rejected while those of the collective approach are …