. This paper examines the determination of precautionary saving when people have access to intra-family risk sharing. I show … one. Also welfare and savings effects from social insurance turn out to be sensitive to assumptions about family structure …

. This paper examines the determination of precautionary saving when people have access to intra-family risk sharing. I show … one. Also welfare and savings effects from social insurance turn out to be sensitive to assumptions about family structure …

To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration … of transfer taxes on altruistic parents’ transfers to their children. Using a theoretical model we find that altruistic …

) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a …

) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a …

The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to … parents to increase the father’s share of the family’s parental leave time. However, regulations in terms of father’s quotas … should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family’s leave time. …

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed … market work and time with children are strongly interdependent. Economic incentives work primarily through decisions about … hours influences less the parents’ time with their children than a change in the father’s work hours does. This would imply …

We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quantity–quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint … for parents. They can purchase day care or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a … combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal …

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …