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 …

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that …

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 …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as … predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the 'old-age security' to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection … employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …