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 …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …

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 …

requires changing the economic environment to which the work of the children constitutes, in the great majority of the cases … the school attendance, demand for educational material, and labour participation of children. Educational policies have … favourable indirect repercussions on the nutritional status of children. Both types of policies discourage fertility. Income re …

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

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives … misrepresent their true ability by investing less in their children, and having a lower number of children. The second-best policy … induces more able parents to have the first-best number of children, and to invest in each child at the first-best level. Less …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …