family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …

report cards in Mexico. The report cards increased parental knowledge and shifted parental attitudes about children's weight …. We observe no meaningful changes in parental behaviors or children's body mass index. Interestingly, parents of children …

black South African children under age five live with a pension recipient. My estimates suggest that pensions received by …

may not otherwise be available. Within the family there is a degree of trust and a level of information which alleviates … families can provide insurance against uncertain dates of death. Death risk sharing family arrangements effectively constitute … in annuities, these risk sharing arrangements provide powerful economic incentives for marriage and family formation. The …

developing countries. These intra-family flows mean that public policies may affect a very different group of people than the one … eligibility. We also find that the drop in labor supply diminishes with family size, as the pension money is split over more … findings suggest that power within the family might play an important role: (1) labor supply drops less when the pension is …

on the children who live with them. We find, in households that pool income, that the pension protects the health of all …