children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of … the Rothbarth method. The application on data from Côte d'Ivoire shows that children command a reasonable fraction of … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children …). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at …

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 …

the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental …

Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk … efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they suffer from an …

crisis-time children; adverse health effects are mainly observed in children born to mothers with low socio-economic status …