number of children. -- Household size ; living arrangements ; roommates ; economies of scale ; household public goods …

and increase household welfare by reducing poverty, especially for women and children. I also show that when the mother … of resources allocated to men, women, and children. Using data from Ecuador, I find that there are important intra …

Aimed at increasing the adoption rate of older children, Minnesota's 2015 Northstar Care Program eliminated the … adoption penalty (the decrease in fostering-based financial transfers associated with adoption) for children aged six and older …, while maintaining it for children under age six. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy that controls for a …