. 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 …

We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the … approximately 3000 GBP a year per child. We use administrative births microdata and household survey data to estimate the impact of …

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then …

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …, however not due to the French Family splitting but rather to the different definitions of taxable incomes in both countries …

-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful … negative impact seems to operate by altering bargaining power within the family and the opportunity cost of having children … or performing household chores in urban areas …

married women to work for pay has mitigated the increase in family earnings inequality. Alternative measures of earnings …