This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 … these children in the past decade are responsible for the decline in the importance of income. We find that while …

, however, considered the incomes and preferences of the children of the elderly. This paper presents a model of the joint … living arrangement choice of parents and children. It then uses a new set of data to consider how the preferences and income … positions of the elderly and their children influence the living arrangements of elderly parents. The findings suggest that the …

This paper uses matched data on the elderly and their children to study the provision of time by children to the …, and the children's age, health, and sex. Older parents, less healthy parents, and non-institutionalized parents receive … more time from their children, while younger children, healthier children, and female children provide more time. In …

worse outcomes irrespective of living conditions. Yet even with controls, the elderly who live with children do worse. This … is in sharp contrast to younger adults who live with children, likely their own, whose life evaluation is no different in … fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …

between two possible explanations. The first is that low-SES children are less able to respond to a given health shock. The … second is that low SES children experience more shocks. We show, using panel data on Canadian children that: 1) the gradient … we estimate in the cross section is very similar to that estimated previously using U.S. children; 2) both high and low …

's treatment of children vis-a-vis adults, particularly the current elderly. The paper begins by showing that poverty rates of … children have, over the past two decades, risen dramatically while those of the elderly have fallen. Next, it shows that, over …, including children. The paper then turns to the role of government policy in influencing these trends. It documents the high …

into account the care-giving responsibilities for young children and teenagers but not for older adults …

We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from … the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could represent transmission of brand preferences across generations …, or it could result from correlation in family characteristics that determine brand choice. We present a variety of …