overestimation of adults' and an underestimation of children's needs-based equivalence weights. Our results indicate that controlling … for income comparisons eliminates the gap between equivalence scale parameters for adults and children found in other …

children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …

taxation. University graduates become high skilled, while the other children attend vocational school and become low skilled … less than 50% attending university (and parents of low and high ability children favoring a smaller university system). The …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the …

scenario concerning the “harmony” of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible …

that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …