Children as a social investment -- Paying for children -- Caring for children -- Children and the search for a work …

and family budgets / with Tamara Ohler -- Children outside the household -- Accounting for family time / with Jayoung Yoon … -- Valuing family work -- Subsidizing parents -- Public spending on children's education and health -- Who should pay for the …Introduction -- Children and the economy -- Commitments and capabilities -- Defining the costs of children -- Children …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

in children such as time, material investments, and childcare services. I estimate the model in a novel dataset from … participation but do not raise significantly skills of children …

We investigate the impact of family co-residence structure and the allocation of major childcare responsibility across … generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find that children living in multigenerational families … school children, but not for middle school children. However, children who live only with their parents and children who live …