This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a value of life type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical … treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …

a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …

binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents … characteristics, and is attenuated for smarter children. The results suggest that less educated parents are either less efficient to … instill social norms or their children less able to acquire them. …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical … treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely … on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990 …-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages five and ten and document that treated children benefit in terms of …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …