. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

Between-family differences in expenditures and output reflect the effect of simultaneous increases in children …'s ability on the willingness of parents to transfer resources to them. Within-family differences also reflect the attitudes of … whether between-family differences exceed within-family differences. For an additive utility, within-family differences in …

This paper examines the appropriate tax treatment of the family in a series of analytical models and numerical examples … analysis, the optimal tax rates on secondary workers in the family are much lower than those on primary earners. Indeed, our …

The household production model provides a useful theoretical framework in which one may analyze family labor supply … issues. In this model, the family is viewed as if it were a small firm producing its ultimate wants within the household. In … order to satisfy these wants, the family (firm) combines purchased market goods and services with the time of various family …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are less likely to get forced into marriage … against their consent, and they are less likely to agree that only a son can ensure the continuation of the family blood line …

Income tax burdens on family units are adjusted to reflect differences in ability to pay attributable to whether the … exists over the appropriate forms of adjustment, and existing approaches to taxation of the family vary greatly across … jurisdictions. This article derives equitable relative tax burdens for different family configurations from a utilitarian welfare …

family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …