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population that were household heads rose from 29.5 to 36.3. While some of this increase was due to the maturing of the"baby boom … sharply for the under 34 population. This paper explains household formations due to changes in headship rates in terms of …
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in labor force participation has been accompanied by changes in allocation of time to various activities in the household … as well. Since the proportion of women in the labor force has been rising, the average amount of time input to household … tasks by all women has been declining over the last 50 years. It is valuable to analyze this in the household production …
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Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to 2.4 children at the time of the Great Depression. It is...
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I characterize a dynamic economy under general distributions of households' risk tolerance, endowments, and beliefs about long-term growth. As the economy expands and the stock market rises (a) the fraction of households with declining consumption-share increases; (b) the wealth-share of high...
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has produced a set of conflicting results. Does household electrification lead to measurable gains in living standards or … connect for free. We conclude that access to household electrification alone is not enough to drive meaningful gains in …
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household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …
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Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households … better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring … income and living standards, we do not know how these scale economies change over time. I use American household expenditure …
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study of household finance is challenging because household behavior is difficult to measure accurately, and because …
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that motivated the study. As a middle ground, we construct household-based measures of labor supply by within-household … aggregating answers to the usual weeks and hours worked questionnaire items. Household (H) measures are substantially different …
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Our study shows that the household production theory illuminates the behavior of households in the allocation of time … and consumption expenditures. Among the noteworthy findings derived from our data, the various household non-market time … rates for both young and elderly households reduces their time spent on household nonmarket activities, such as child care …
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