The cost of children is a critical parameter used in determining many economic policies. For instance, correctly … setting the tax deduction for families with children requires assessing the true household cost of children. Evaluating child … poverty at the individual level requires making a clear distinction between the share of family resources received by children …

among married couples without young children, those with a greater difference in weekly hours of work between husband and … evidence of a relationship between specialization and couple time together among couples with young children. …

It is frequently assumed that money in the hands of women leads to better outcomes for their children than money in the … child, but leads to more gender-equal allocations to children. Second, time preferences are important in explaining …-making, and suggest that policy aimed to increase spending on children should target the spouse with preferences most aligned with …

satisfaction. Concerning the relation between income sharing and income pooling, I account not only for the dominance of pooling …

work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to transitory and …