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 …

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 …

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

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

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …

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

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 …