This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

settings. We consider a family of null hypotheses in which each null hypothesis specifies that the program has no effect on one … of several outcomes of interest. Under weak assumptions, we construct a procedure for testing this family of null …

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 … parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational redistributional consequences …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income … consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income … consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

, we estimate specialized versions of the model for families with two children and use the results to derive the intra-family … raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the … household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of children" are perceived essentially as market …