Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot …;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior. The quot …

Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The … "demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … conclude that children conceived before first marriage increase the risk of marital disruption. Finally, the higher the parents … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

, 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 …

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 …