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The American family and family economics

Lundberg, Shelly (contributor); … - 2007

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in …

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Proximity and coresidence of adult children and their parents in the United States : description and correlates

Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013

In this paper we provide an overview of the patterns of intergenerational proximity and coresidence of adult children and their mothers in the U.S., using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the U.S. Census. We highlight the importance of three specification and...

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Unequal bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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