-income females with children …

low incomes is roughly twice that levied on the rich. Low-income females with children face particularly stiff marrying … lifetime spending matters-a lot. This is particularly true for low-income, single females with children. Absent the tax, 13 …

low incomes is roughly twice that levied on the rich. Low-income females with children face particularly stiff marrying … lifetime spending matters—a lot. This is particularly true for low-income, single females with children. Absent the tax, 13 …

'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 …

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 …

This paper examines the bequest\gift behavior of altruistic parents who do not know their children's abilities and … cannot observe their children's work effort. Parents are likely to respond to this information problem by making larger … bequests to higher earning children and by using their transfers implicitly either to tax at the margin low earning children or …