There is a strong intergenerational correlation in welfare participation, but this does not imply that parental welfare receipt induces child receipt. While there are a few quasi-experimental studies that provide estimates of the causal effect of parental welfare participation for children from...

This paper studies how access to public pensions affects old-age support and child investment in traditional societies. Guided by predictions from an overlapping generations model, we analyze the influences of a new pension program in rural People's Republic of China, using a...

This paper uses a policy quasi-experiment created by the introduction of an old-age unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity and gender of the recipient. Taking advantage of a...

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as consumption" vs. investment" good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across workers....

Kinderlosigkeit hat zwei unmittelbare Auswirkungen auf das Rentensystem. Erstens stehen dadurch in der nächsten Generation weniger Beitragszahler zur Verfügung. Zweitens zahlen Kinderlose ihrerseits typischerweise mehr Rentenbeiträge. Denn insbesondere Frauen ohne Kinder haben ein meist...

Neben der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende (Arbeitslosengeld II) wurde in Deutschland zum 1. Januar 2005 auch der Kinderzuschlag eingeführt. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird für eine Reihe von Familientypen die Wirkung dieser neuen Sozialleistung im Zusammenspiel mit dem Wohngeld und in...

Die Frage, ob und in welchem Umfang volljährige Kinder ihre Eltern oder Eltern ihre Kinder finanziell unterstützen sollen, ist wieder Gegenstand der politischen Diskussion. Wie weit sollte die "Verantwortungsgemeinschaft Familie" gehen? Für Gerd Andres, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär beim...

This paper uses a policy quasi-experiment created by the introduction of an old-age unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity and gender of the recipient. Taking advantage of a...

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as "consumptionʺ vs. "investmentʺ good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across...