. 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 studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of …

groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two … necessary features that explain the origin of the family are given by uncertain paternity and overlapping cohorts of dependent … the emergence of the family. When we consider a kinship system in which an adult male transfers resources not just to his …

welfare receipt across generations has created a culture in which welfare use reinforces itself through the family. Others … these claims. In this paper, we investigate the existence and importance of family welfare cultures in the context of Norway …

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background.Comparing these findings with …

This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions – measured by separation, divorce and … significant correlations between family disruptions prior to the age of 16 and personality development in early childhood …. Parental divorce has the largest negative effect on a child's personality development. Family disruptions have smaller effects …

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates … parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children …'s educational attainment. We develop an empirical strategy to identify these effects. We show that the coefficient on family size in …