the child does not reciprocate. Parents and children make investments in the child's education, investments for other …We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents care about their child but … purposes, and parents can transfer cash to their child. We show that for an identifiable set of parent-child pairs, parents …

the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

find substantial transmission of patience from parents to children, which is insensitive to the inclusion of comprehensive … sets of administratively reported controls and persists as children age. We further explore heterogeneity in the … transmission with respect to two theoretically important but distinct dimensions of socialization through which parents can …

This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …