This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time … the index child's siblings are step children or biological children of the parent. Using data from the Health and … and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital …

income on independent living as well as considerable heterogeneity. The elderly with easy access to their adult children …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …

's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …

intended policy effects, as adult children who make income contributions to their parents could adjust their behavior in … of adult children to transfer income to elderly parents in the context of a large middle-income country, and we also …

reduced child support.These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with economic … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … child health. Parental characteristics and time use data suggest that economic incentives for joint custody may limit …

non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage.We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … of marriage will invest more in children and have greater labor specialization, while policy changes that eroded marriage …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … conclude that children conceived before first marriage increase the risk of marital disruption. Finally, the higher the parents …