The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in … compensation. Controlling for unobserved household heterogeneity, planned consumption differences across sons, and a fuller … model of resource allocation for sons in traditional agricultural families. -- Household model ; parental investment …

child human capital is a household public good and that the relationship between child human capital and employment is … concave, we compare the welfare obtained under different decision-making mechanisms and test the predictions of the model for … a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents 'tax' their …

child human capital is a household public good and that the relationship between child human capital and employment is … concave, we compare the welfare obtained under different decision-making mechanisms and test the predictions of the model for … a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents "tax" their …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … endogeneity problem, we use a unique survey on households with twin children and a comparison group of non-twin households. The …