This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … 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 …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

while children's altruism is not. The traditional topping up and opting out policies are special cases of ours. Both total … and informal care should increase with the children's level of altruism. This obtains under full and asymmetric … explained by the need to provide incentives to high-altruism children. The implementing contract is always such that social care …

cognitive development of lower socioeconomic status children who reached maturity in the mid-20th century …