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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...

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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

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Parents' desire to make equal inter vivos transfers

Halvorsen, Elin (contributor); … - 2008

to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …

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What explains fertility? : evidence from Italian pension reforms

Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2009

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as "consumptionʺ vs. "investmentʺ good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across...