How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We … their own parents when children are present to observe such transfers. Parents who desire old-age support have an incentive … to behave appropriately. The idea that the parents' behavior is aimed at inculcating desirable behavior in their children …

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger … incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as …

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger … incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as …

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger … incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason … costly to care for parents if they live nearby, daughters with children do not move as far away from the parental home as …

paper we present an argument showing why parents who are equally altruistic toward their children optimally transfer more to …-compensating transfers emanate from such altruism. A key point in the analysis is that parents and children are interlinked in a rich web of …

-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our …This paper bridges two distinct areas of inquiry: the economic theory of the family and behavioral research on time …-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family …

-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our …This paper bridges two distinct areas of inquiry: the economic theory of the family and behavioral research on time …-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family …

his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant …

his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant …