Preface. Acknowledgements. The Authors.- Introduction, Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu and Shripad Tuljapurkar.- Micro-level perspectives. Chapter 1: Substitution and Substitutability: The Effects of Kin Availability on Intergenerational Transfers in Malawi, Alexander A. Weinreb.- Chapter 2: Kinship Networks and Intergenerational Transfers, C.Y. Cyrus Chu and Ruoh-rong Yu.- Chapter 3: Stability and Change in Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwan, I-Fen Lin, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein, and Yu-Hsuan Lin.- Chapter 4: Demographic Events and the Timing of Monetary Transfers: Some Evidence from Germany, Sumon Kumar Bhaumik.- Chapter 5: Maternal Co-residence and Contact: Evidence from Cross-national Surveys, Judith Treas, and Philip N. Cohen.- Chapter 6: Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China, Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Nan Li, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Xiaoyi Jin.- Micro-macro and Macro-level perspectives. Chapter 7: Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan, Cem Mete and T. Paul Schultz.- Chapter 8: Social Expenditures on Children and the Elderly in OECD Countries, 1980-1995: Shifting Allocations, Changing Needs, Janet C. Gornick.- Chapter 9: Consequences of Educational Change for the Burden of Chronic Health Problems in the Population, Mark D. Hayward, Eileen M. Crimmins and Zhenmei Zhang.- Chapter 10: Effects of Changing Age Structure and Intergenerational Transfers on Patterns of Consumption and Saving, Diane J. Macunovich.- Chapter 11: Some Intergenerational Transfer Implications of Birth Fluctuations, Robert Schoen and Stefan Jonsson.- Chapter 12: On Stochastic Generational Accounting, Juha M. Alho and Reijo Vanne.- Index.