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 …

parents have an intrinsic preference for help in time by family members. We first show that low (resp., high) income children …We develop a model where families consist of one parent and one child, with children differing in income and all agents … term care transfer program, which children complement with help in time or money to their dependent parent. Dependent …

scenario concerning the “harmony” of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible …This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case … that when family aid (and long-term care services in general) are introduced the outcome is likely to be inefficient. Still …