Boldrin and Jones' framework parents procreate because the children care about their old parents' utility, and thus provide … Becker model parents have children because they perceive their children's lives as a continuation of their own. In the … fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility, the one …

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 …

There is growing concern about a decline in the total fertility rate worldwide, but nowhere is the concern greater than … generate incentives for individuals to reduce not just the fertility rate within families, but also the incentive to form … fertility rates. Our results show that the impact of social security on these variables has been non-trivial. Our calibrated …

the downward trends in family formation and fertility worldwide, and for a slowdown in the rates of savings and economic …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling …

parents and children. We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend …This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing … of housing debt that parents hold but does not reduce student debt for children …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …