children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with … variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents’ socioeconomic background. …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin …

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …

children varies across income groups. In the model, poor and middle-income families tend to channel their resources into a few … children whereas rich families (and perhaps very poor families as well) tend to allocate resources more evenly. As a result …