This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high …-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children … persistency and network measurement error. Only when children enter the labor market, we find that friends of parents have a …

In this paper we provide an overview of the patterns of intergenerational proximity and coresidence of adult children … graduates are less likely to live near their mothers and older children live further from their mothers. Other demographic …, characteristics indicating adult children's current need for transfers (e.g. grandchildren) are not correlated with either close …

have generated. This implies that parents from richer families, ceteris paribus, tend to guard against their children …We propose a model of parental altruism in relation with child habit formation, where children are unaware of their …

care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …

care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a “game” inspired by Becker …

care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …