The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … birth data. First, there is a large gap in the share of children living with married parents (or two parents) that favors …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … empowered children within the household and allowed them to capture an increasing share of the household surplus over the past …During the 20th century there was a secular transformation within American families from a household dominated by the …

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 …

Whereas studies have established the intra-household distribution of resources affects allocation decisions, little is … 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 …

children share returns. Migrants from a population with heterogeneous intergenerational discount rates will be self-selected on … intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration … costs have significantly more children than members of the same birth cohort who migrate later when costs are low. We …

. 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 …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

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 …

parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a … relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children …