employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

. Value systems are endogenous and taught by parents to their children. In conjunction with actual behavior, value systems …

the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … inter vivos transfers behaviour. The data include information about stated attitudes towards transfers among the parents …

among white children and older parents. We also find support for the existence of an unanticipated gender … clinically measured weight and height of a representative sample of English children. Our findings are consistent with the … existence of a strong intergenerational transmission of overweight from parents to their offspring. These effects are stronger …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents …'s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation …

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 … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …