, 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 …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin …

parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational redistributional consequences …Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a … great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading …