Studies of US intergenerational mobility focus almost exclusively on the transmission of (dis)advantage from parents to … children. Until very recently, the influence of earlier generations could not be assessed even in long-running longitudinal …

I develop a model in which a child's acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in his household … to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

The rising cost of college tuition and the accompanying investment parents often make have received considerable …, their distribution across children, and their relationship with later cash transfers, there has been little empirical work … supplement to the Health and Retirement Study, we find that parents typically invest differentially in the schooling of siblings …

Ghanaian custom views children as members of either their mother's or father's lineage (extended family), but not both …. Patrilineal custom charges a man's lineage with caring for his widow and children, while matrilineal custom places this burden on …, Ghana enacted the Intestate Succession (PNDC) Law 111, 1985 and 1998 Children's Act 560 to force men to provide for their …

. By definition, informal care is unpaid. It remains a puzzle why so many adult children give freely of their time … 2003 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We examine whether the elderly parents give more inter …-vivos monetary transfers to adult children who provide informal care, by examining both the extensive and intensive margins of …

how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their …. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter …

determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills …. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children--such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …