transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand …. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such … a subsidization emanates from the demonstration effect: a child's propensity to furnish parents with attention and care …

We propose an explanation for the provision of attention and care to aged parents; we suggest a reason why the presence … of young children could support rather than inhibit the provision of this care; and we provide an explanation as to why … daughters are more often observed to provide attention and care to parents than sons. …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …

hours influences less the parents' time with their children than a change in the father's work hours does. This would imply … find that parents prefer joint activities with children, and that out-of-home child-care is not chosen as a substitute for …Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed …

migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to …

, and on the amount given, if the potential giver is under the age of retirement and has children, but no significant effect … if the person has no children, or is over the retirement age. This rejects the hypothesis that money transfers are …