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

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 …

's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy consisting of joint taxation of married couples, monetary transfers and … in-kind benefits which reduce the time cost of children. Then we simulate alternative reforms of the tax and the child … results: First, policies which simply increase the family budget either via higher transfers (direct or in-kind) or via family …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … welfare enhancing policy intervention. We discuss the extent to which existing measures in family policy are suitable to …

the variation in adoption costs is explained by child characteristics. In particular, costs lower for older children …, children of African descent, and special needs children. Findings inform policies regarding the transition of children from …

The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore … be almost exclusively attributed to the insurance role of the family with respect to longevity risk. Since a married …

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

“linked” by the young spouses. Children contribute part of their time to a household (couple) public good and provide …

We demonstrate that the notion of a “family constitution” (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … reproduce by cell separation, to one where individuals differentiated by sex marry, have children and bargain over the … allocation of domestic resources on condition that individual preferences are transmitted from parents to children, and having …