relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …

We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from …

decisions, the parent decides whether to house and support his children beyond age 18. Drawing on the work of Milgrom and … older children for their teenage risky behaviors in order to dissuade the younger children from the same risky behaviors … who engaged in teen risky behaviors will decrease with the number of remaining children at risk. We test these two …

use names and birth dates to link the records of mothers and children. We also identify mothers who are siblings. We show … that there is a strong intergenerational correlation in the birth weight of mothers and children, but that a measure of …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

This paper provides evidence that parents accumulate savings to insure their children against income risk. I refer to … model of altruistically linked overlapping generations, in which parents and children interact strategically, that is …

We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in … discounted values of these responses to permanent income. Our estimates imply that parents pass on between 2 and 3 cents out of … resources of adult children is through transfers and bequests and about 85 percent is through the intergenerational correlation …

teenager and the willingness of parents to continue to house and support their daughters given their decisions. Drawing on the … work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have …

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

. By definition, informal care is unpaid. It remains a puzzle why so many adult children give freely of their time … 2003 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We examine whether the elderly parents give more inter …-vivos monetary transfers to adult children who provide informal care, by examining both the extensive and intensive margins of …