The cash component of Oportunidades, a large conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in Mexico, has previously been shown to be associated with better outcomes for child growth and development, The objective of this analysis was to determine whether the cash transfers were also associated with...

his paper examines altruism and exchange models of familial relationships. It first examines the predictions of these models when there are more than two family members, demonstrating that altruism with multiple altruists is similar to the classic public good model. The paper also examines...

If immigrant parents face higher transactions costs of enrolling in Medicaid, and different opportunities in the market for private health insurance, then their responses to becoming eligible for Medicaid are likely to differ from those of native-born parents. This prediction is tested using...