"There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical … targeting children through two general policies, namely selective commodity taxation and cash transfer to family with children …

likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man's children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner …

the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would have led to a reduction in labor supply … expansion, theory and evidence were in the strongest alignment when the research design that produced the evidence was most …

state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of … voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult household, where both spouses may have marginal rates of substitution … interests of parents and those of children. Depending on the marginal rate of substitution between paternal and maternal …

children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely …

the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental … external benefits of their actions. -- Stochastic quantity and quality of children ; moral hazard ; population externalities …