How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We … their own parents when children are present to observe such transfers. Parents who desire old-age support have an incentive … to behave appropriately. The idea that the parents' behavior is aimed at inculcating desirable behavior in their children …

transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand … for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own … children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of …

biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea … having children is to obtain support in old age, we perceive menopause as an upper limit to the fertile state, when a … continued ability to give birth to children would not generate the desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable …

biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea … having children is to obtain support in old age, we perceive menopause as an upper limit to the fertile state, when a … continued ability to give birth to children would not generate the desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable …

biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea … having children is to obtain support in old age, we perceive menopause as an upper limit to the fertile state, when a … continued ability to give birth to children would not generate the desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable …

biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea … having children is to obtain support in old age, we perceive menopause as an upper limit to the fertile state, when a … continued ability to give birth to children would not generate the desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable …

biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea … having children is to obtain support in old age, we perceive menopause as an upper limit to the fertile state, when a … continued ability to give birth to children would not generate the desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable …

among their children is attributed to the cost associated with unequal bequests. This paper identifies a source of this cost … and explains why equal bequests to children whose earnings differ, and parental altruism toward these children, are not …