the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …

relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … rise in relative earnings of wives increased competition between spouses for the love and affection of their children while …

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 …

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 … 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 …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the U.S. began to rise dramatically … in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the rise in childcare time was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Why … would highly educated parents increase the amount of time they allocate to childcare at the same time that their own market …

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this … paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time …. Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we document that parents perceive the returns to 3 hours of …