We examine and verify our hypothesis from a theoretical model that parents are more likely to be authoritative if they …

This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care …. Focusing on the special case of parents' illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … statistics show that about 30% of adult children living separately from their parents provide long-term in-home care, which …

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …

habitual preferences, a small income transfer leads to greater welfare. This implies that parents from richer families tend to …We propose a model of parental altruism in relation to children’s habit formation, as children are unaware of their … income transferred to her child lower than the child would desire and (2) reduces further income transfer upon an exogenous …

educational levels of parents are considered key factors in explaining children's educational success. Nevertheless, the … literature has not reached consensus on the causal effects of parents' education on their child's schooling. This is because both … parents' and the child's schooling depend on unobserved heterogeneity. Moreover, the strong positive correlation of the mother …

This paper deals with the data of dormitory students in National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College to …

This paper investigates effects of forced marriages in the Pol Pot regime on educational investments for their children …