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. …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …

, 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 …This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …