We use the 1993 wave of the AHEAD data set to estimate a game-theoretic model of families' decisions concerning the provision of informal and formal care for elderly individuals. The outcome is a Nash equilibrium where each family member jointly determines his or her consumption, transfers for...

This article examines whether families with white mothers make different child care decisions for sons than for daughters before the children start school. Copyright (c) 2004 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.