This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a …

consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider … independent of the reproductive preferences of parents or unobserved constraints that might influence family life cycle behaviors …

-household inequality measures belonging to a family of entropy indexes. We illustrate our findings with an empirical application that …

marriage distortion, and both depend solely on the corresponding reduced-form elasticities. Our calculations suggest that the … total welfare loss is around 4.9 percent of yearly household income, with marriage distortion contributing 17 percent of …